Lyra Bicyclica Forty Poets On the Wheel

ou walking men, And stir your heavy pegs ; Arouse, arise, my gawky friend, And ply your spider legs ! What tho' you 're awkward at the first, 'Most any one can learn ? So hold upon the handles, man, And take another turn. They 've built us up a noble steed To beat the vulgar rout; 20 THE YOUTH AND THE BICYCLE. The motion is almost the same As just to walk about. You 're seated on horseback afoot, To speed your distant ends; Beside the pleasant rolling round Among one's honest friends. Mark, fellows, 't is a Traveller, And useful work is done, As well as on its spinning wings To fly around for fun. You '11 say, when our revolving colt You shall have better known, " Now, hang me, but I must have one Bicycle of my own!" THE YOUTH AND THE BICYCLE. A Certain young man, for his physical, Has been out and bought him a bicycle; He is careless and rash, And it's treating him " hash," This hasty young man on his bicycle. A TOAST. 21 Says he, you acephalous bicycle, I shall fling you away for a tricycle, Have a tertium quid, Or it cannot be rid, Says hasty young man off his bicycle. o. w. H. A TOAST. Holmes Plus D. Blbamus Ad Primum Blcyclicum Club, In Urbe Eorum Cui Nomen Est " Hub" J Ex Floreant, Valeant, Volitant Tam, Non Peircius Ipse Enumeret Quam. Englished, freely. Here 's luck to the pioneer Bicycle Club, That starts in the place entitled the Hub; May thei...