<h4><SPAN name="THE_SHAKESPEARE_MEMORIAL" id="THE_SHAKESPEARE_MEMORIAL"></SPAN>THE SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL</h4>
<p>Lord Lilac thought it rather rotten<br/>
That Shakespeare should be quite<br/>
And therefore got on a Committee<br/>
With several chaps out of the city.<br/>
And Shorter and Sir Herbert Tree,<br/>
Lord Rothschild and Lord Rosebery<br/>
And F.C.G. and Comyns Carr,<br/>
Two dukes and a dramatic star,<br/>
Also a clergyman now dead;<br/>
And while the vain world careless sped<br/>
Unheeding the heroic name—<br/>
The souls most fed with Shakespeare's flame<br/>
Still sat unconquered in a ring,<br/>
Remembering him like anything.<br/>
<br/>
Lord Lilac did not long remain.<br/>
Lord Lilac did not come again.<br/>
He softly lit a cigarette<br/>
And sought some other social set<br/>
Where, in some other knots or rings,<br/>
People were doing cultured things,<br/>
—Miss Zwilt's Humane Vivarium<br/>
—The little men that paint on gum<br/>
—The exquisite Gorilla Girl....<br/>
He sometimes, in this giddy whirl<br/>
(Not being really bad at heart),<br/>
Remembered Shakespeare with a start—<br/>
But not with that grand constancy<br/>
Of Clement Shorter, Herbert Tree,<br/>
Lord Rosebery and Comyns Carr<br/>
And all the other names there are;<br/>
Who stuck like limpets to the spot,<br/>
Lest they forgot, lest they forgot.<br/>
<br/>
Lord Lilac was of slighter stuff;<br/>
Lord Lilac had had quite enough.<br/>
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