スクラップブック

解説

付記

親愛なるフランクよ、 お前が誇らしげに収めたスクラップ帳―― 己が浴びたすべての辛辣な嘲りを、 真実の記録として並べたそれ。 新聞に刷られた冷笑を切り抜き貼り、 その名を弄ぶ書き手たちの笑いを 名声の証と信じて。 戯画のように描かれた姿を貼り並べ、 その奇妙なセム系の顔を笑われて。 だが貸してくれ、私にその帳を。 機知もなく、技もない私だが、 そこに記してやろう―― 神に拳があったなら、 お前が日々浴びただろう打擲の数々を。

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Original

A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. One of these egotists was addressed in the lines following, by Agamemnon Melancthon Peters:

Additional notes

Dear Frank, that scrap-book where you boast You keep a record true Of every kind of peppered roast That's made of you; Wherein you paste the printed gibes That revel round your name, Thinking the laughter of the scribes Attests your fame; Where all the pictures you arrange That comic pencils trace— Your funny figure and your strange Semitic face— Pray lend it me. Wit I have not, Nor art, but there I'll list The daily drubbings you'd have got Had God a fist.