etween you and me
Is this, dear--more's the pity--
You're summering in the mountains,
I'm simmering in the city!

[Ogden Ward

THE FIVE DOUBLE U'S

Winsomeness, wardrobe, words of eloquence,
Wisdom, and wealth, bring men to consequence.
That's something which a man in vain pursues
Who is not blest with these five w's.[1]

[_From the Sanskrit_ (Tr. by Chas. R. Lanman)

[1]The Sanskrit word for each of these five things begins with w.

WEALTH

Can wealth give Happiness? look round, and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortune lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates, and calls for more.

[Edward Young

EQUITY--?

The meanest man I ever saw
Allus kep' inside o' the law;
And ten-times better fellers I've knowed
The blame gran' jury's sent over the road.

[James Whitcomb Riley

A WHOLLY UNSCHOLASTIC OPINION

Plain hoss-sense in poetry-writin'
Would jest knock sentiment a-kitin'!
Mostly poets is all star-gazing'
And moanin' and groanin' and paraphrasin'!

[James Whitcomb Riley

GOLDEN ROD

It is the twilight of the year
And through her wondrous wide abode
The autumn goes, all silently,
To light her lamps along the road.

[Charles Hanson Towne

GRACE

Thou canst not move thy staff in air,
Or dip thy paddle in the lake,
But it carves the bow of beauty there,
And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson

FROM THE FRENCH

Says Marmontel, The secret's mine
Of Racine's art-of-verse divine.
To do thee justice, Marmontel,
Never was secret kept so well.

[William Watson

TWO POETS

A peacock's-tail-like splendour hath this M