The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Anonymous. "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi." Vanity Fair, January 21, 1860, 52.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Verses concerning Martin Tupper's arbitrary rise to fame and his subsequent disappearance, possibly to China, which, if it's true, the speaker pities the country.