I had stopped to read a handbill of the play, <br />Caught by the lettering. Thus it was I read, <br />``Programme of this night's pieces, Saturday <br />The twentieth of October, `X. Y. Z.,' <br />A piece in one act, and `Les Bergers Fous,' <br />These to be followed by the well--known `drame' <br />Of `Manon Lescaut,' here brought out anew <br />For the first time at Lyons.'' And a name <br />Followed in giant type of one who then <br />Illustrious stood in all the world of folly, <br />The most sublime Comedian known to men, <br />``Mademoiselle Esther, Muse of Melancholy.'' <br />She in her part of Manon, so 'twas writ, <br />Three nights would play in honour infinite.<br /><br />Wilfrid Scawen Blunt<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/esther-a-sonnet-sequence-xxxii/
