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Mon, 29 Sep 2008
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 NEWS FLASH, "TOUCHSTONE IS ON THE BUS." NEWS FLASH. "TOUCHSTONE IS ON THE BUS."
TOUCHSTONE ON A
BUS
 Last night,
I rode with Touchstone on a
bus
From Ludgate Hill to
World's End. It was he!
Despite
the broad cloth and the bowler hat,
I knew him,
Touchstone, the wild flower of folly,
The
whetstone of his age, the scourge of kings,
The
madcap morning-star of elfin-land,
Who used to
wrap his legs around his neck
For warmth on
winter nights. He had slipped back,
To see what
men were doing in a world
That should be wiser.
He had watched a play,
Read several books, heard
men discourse of art
And life: and he sat
bubbling like a spring
In Arden. Never did
blackbird, drenched with may,
Chuckle as
Touchstone chuckled on that ride,
Lord, what
a world! Lord, what a mad, mad
world!
Then, to the jolt and jingle of the
engine,
He burst into the bunch of madcap
rhymes:-
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