The Secrets of a Savoyard (Classic Reprint). Henry A Lytton
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Author: Henry A Lytton
Page Count: 232 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781330790168
File size: 11 Mb
Download Link: The Secrets of a Savoyard (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Secrets of a Savoyard
"The Gondoliers."
(After assisting at the first night of the new Gilbertand-Sullivan revival.)
You may boast of your Georgian birds of song
And say that never was stuff so strong,
That its note of genius simply mocks
At yester-century's feeble crocks,
And floods the Musical Comedy stage
With the dazzling art of a peerless age.
But for delicate grace and dainty wit,
For words and melody closely knit,
Your best purveyors of mirth and joy
Were never in sight of the old Savoy;
They never began to compete, poor dears,
With Gilbert-and-Sullivan's Gondoliers.
For me, as an out-of-date Victorian,
Prehistoric and dinosaurian,
I hardly feel that I dare reflect
On the art of the day with disrespect;
But if anyone asks me, "Who'll survive -
The living dead, or the dead alive?
Which of the two will be last to go -
The Gondoliers or the latest show?"
I wouldn't give much for the latter's chance;
That is the view that I advance,
Trusting the public to bear me out
(The good from the bad they re quick to sever);
"Of this I nurse no manner of doubt,
No probable, possible shadow of doubt,
No possible doubt whatever." - O. S.
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