They say Sixth Avenue and the Bowery keep Green Veils, one season chic- Department stores Mark down in vain no profit shall they reap. I sometimes think that never lasts so long That all the Pompadours the parterre boasts And this Revival of the Chignon low Ah, my beloved, try each Style you meet; For some we once admired, the Very Best And we that now make fun of Waterfalls Ah, make the most of what we yet may wear, Josephine Daskam Bacon. H THE MODERN RUBAIYAT (Dobley's Version) ARK! for the message cometh from the Winter, thy doom is spoke; thy dirges ring, Thy time is o'er- and through the Palace door Enter the Princess! Hail the new-crowned Spring! Comes she all rose-crowned, glowing with the Joy Of Laughter and of Cupid, the God-Boy; Buds bursting on the bough in welcoming To Her we Love, whose loving will not cloy! List! from the organ rippling in the Street And eke the Little Neck! Ah-Life is Sweet! Come, let us lilt a Merry Little Song Into the glory of the Year's new Birth. Come where the Bonnets bloom within the Grove And let us pluck them for the One we Love; Violets and Things and chiffon-nested Birds. Tell me didst ever see a Glass-Eyed Dove? Think you how many Springs will go and come When We are Dead Ones - and the busy Hum Of life will never reach us Nothing Done And Nothing Doing in the Silence Glum! Listen! the cable car's Gay Gong has rang, Like to a District Messenger astir. Ah! my Beloved, when it's Really Spring Signals from earth to sky - Tremendous Sounds That might to Some mean any Ancient Thing! Then let us to the Caravan at Once, The Sawdust where the Peanut haunts And the Elephant does Wild and Woolly Stunts! Asparagus is glowing on the Stall, The Spring lamb cavorts on the Menu tall; A Book of Coon Songs underneath the Bough, Beside me singing rag-time? I don't know? I wonder would a dozen be enow? I sent my soul afling through Joy and Pain Sometimes I think the Glories that they Sing Are like the grape-vine the Fox tried to cling; But take To-day- and make the Most of It, I think it's Just Too Sweet for anything! I often wonder if we should expire If we could but Collect the Gold we Lend! Ah, Love! could Thou and I Creation run, How Different our Scheme! The Summer's sun Would see another Springtime blossoming, Another Summer's Rose to Follow On! And Leaning from the Sky a Little Star What now we Grope for in the Dinky-dink, And when Alone you dream your fancies ripe, Smoke Up and when you gather with the Where I made One-Turn Down an Empty Pipe! LINES WRITTEN ("BY REQUEST ") M ASTER, in memory of that Verse of Thine, Thou hast the kind of Halo which outstays The Lion and the Alligator squat In Dervish Courts the Weather being hot Under Umbrellas. Not so with thee; but in Thy place of Rest, Thou art the enduring Theme of dining Bards; |