Vocal and Focal.

The eye can be vocal as well as focal. Even to-day the language of Love is often operated through the optic, disproving the theory that love is a “blind.” But the optickle illusions of love can be discounted as an hysterical feat rather than an historical fact, for Love laughs at lock-smiths, lock-jaw, lock-outs, knock-outs, sacri-farcical homecooking (or burnt offerings), and other hazards of the I-seize; anything that can do all that has more valor than value, as a witness for the Defiance. But, as a weapon of defence, the eye can often say more than a claymore. Sometimes, while the lips lisp of love and laughter the optic emits the “gypsy's warning” with icycles on. page 13 Often, while the lips smile, the lamps revile; while the organ-pipes wheeze “how do you do,” the premonitory peeper pronounces “rats to you,” or some such rodentry remark.