My case would then be dour and sad,
Likewise distressing, dismal, gray,
Pathetic, mournful, dreary, bad.

* * *

Though I could keep this up all day,
This lyric, elegiac, song,
Meseems hath come the time to say
Farewell! Adieu! Good-by! So long!



The Ancient Lays


I cannot sing the old songs
I sang long years ago,
But I can always hear them
At any vodevil show.

Erring in Company

("If I have erred I err in company with Abraham
Lincoln."--THEODORE ROOSEVELT.)

If e'er my rhyming be at fault,
If e'er I chance to scribble dope,
If that my metre ever halt,
I err in company with Pope.