"I WOULD IF I COULD" F I could write fables for babies, I'd let all the grown-ups alone; For the babies would cry when my stories they'd try, And with their tears I'd mingle my own. -JAMES LANE Allen. TW AT CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA WO pelicans sat on a wave-washed rock, Said one old pel. to the other old fel., So they heavily flopped from that slippery rock -VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG. SUZANNE'S MUSIC BOX To the children of all time. Words and Music by ALBERT SPALDING IN 'N Suzanne's praise Your voices one and all! Heartily, merrily, Cheerily, joyously, Sing for Suzanne's Wonderland! etc. GOD FOR A. OD of the daylight, love her, God of the dark defend her, -JOHN GALSWORTHY. FICKLE FORTUNE POKER and bridge, young man, A taxicab, young man. But fortune is fickle; Lost all but a nickel; A "pay-as-you-enter," young man. -DE WOLF HOPPER. "LITHPING” LEARNED child onth had a lithp. Her thpeaking wath otherwithe crithp. She knew all about Marathon, Thaxon, and Tharathen, And Warthaw, and Ragathz, and Vithp. -OWEN WISTER. SONG AT TWILIGHT THE HE star is over the steeple, The hare and her brown litter -PERCY MACKAYE. A FRIEND INDEED HE is my friend who loves me true, Whate'er I do; Who loves me, and yet more than me, Whose trust in me's not even stirred By my own word; Who's loyal to me even when I Myself belie. I think, with such a friend, I'd be -DR. FRANK CRANE. A YOUNG MAN FROM CHICAGO' HERE was a young man from Chicago, Into two hours' talk, Which was drier than chalk Though he called it a terse travelogo. -BURTON HOLMES. |