69

Fifty-Fifty 70

"So Shines a Good Deed in a Naughty World" 71

Vain Words 72

On the Importance of Being Earnest 73

It Happens in the B. R. Families 74

Abelard and Heloise 77

Lines Written on the Sunny Side of Frankfort Street 79

Fifty-Fifty 80

To Myrtilla 81

A Psalm of Labouring Life 82

Ballade of Ancient Acts 84

To a Prospective Cook 85

Variation on a Theme 86

"Such Stuff as Dreams" 88

The Ballad of Justifiable Homicide 89

The Ballad of the Murdered Merchant 90

A Gotham Garden of Verses 92

Lines on Reading Frank J. Wilstach's "A Dictionary of Similes" 94

The Dictaphone Bard 95

The Comfort of Obscurity 97

Ballade of the Traffickers 98

To W. Hohenzollern, on Discontinuing The Conning Tower 100

To W. Hohenzollern, on Resuming The Conning Tower 103

Thoughts on the Cosmos 105

On Environment 106

The Ballad of the Thoughtless Waiter 107

Rus Vs. Urbs 109

"I'm Out of the Army Now" 110

"Oh Man!" 112

An Ode in Time of Inauguration 113

What the Copy Desk Might Have Done 124

Song of Synthetic Virility 133

SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN

Present Imperative

Horace: Book I, Ode 11