PEDESTRIANS! buy your pantaloons at sixteen shillings new; But ere you measure miles in them, the Miles must measure you. Since two of one trade never yet were able to agree, Of course there must a breach between two breeches-makers be. These two contending tailors, call them Mileses, if you please— But @3Miles@1 in the plural should be written @3Milites@1— The curious fact which causes most their customers to wonder, Though scarce ten yards apart, the two are Miles and Miles asunder. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW (SEPTEMBER 25, 1857) by ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE LOWELL SONNET: 54 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE ARGONAUTS (ARGONATUICA): EROS AND HIS MOTHER by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS EPILOGUE TO LESSING'S LAOCOON by MATTHEW ARNOLD LILIES: 9. BENEATH LOFTIER STARS by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) TO HELEN KELLER by TOSCAN BENNETT PREPARATION by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |