PERORATION

n : The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it. PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succe . “Persevere, persevere!” cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl. “Remember the fable of tortoise and hare— The one at the goal while the other is—where?” Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peace, The goal and the rival forgotten alike, And the long fatigue of the needle hike. His spirit a-squat in the gra and the dew Of the dogle Land beyond the Stew, He sleeps, like a saint in a holy place, A winner of all that is good in a race. Sukker Uffro, 255