ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The author wishes to thank the New York Tribune, Life, Harper's Magazine, Collier's Weekly, and The Home Sector, for their kind permission to include in this volume material which has appeared in their pages.

CONTENTS

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Present Imperative[3]
The Doughboy's Horace[5]
From: Horace To: Phyllis[7]
Advising Chloë[8]
To an Aged Cut-up I[9]
II[10]
His Monument[11]
Glycera Rediviva![12]
On a Wine of Horace's[13]
"What Flavour?"[14]
The Stalling of Q. H. F.[15]
On the Flight of Time[16]
The Last Laugh[17]
Again Endorsing the Lady I[19]
II[20]
Propertius's Bid for Immortality[21]
A Lament[23]
Bon Voyage—and Vice Versa[24]
Fragment[25]
On the Uses of Adversity[26]
After Hearing "Robin Hood"[27]
Maud Muller Mutatur[28]
The Carlyles[31]
If Amy Lowell Had Been James Whitcomb Riley[35]
If the Advertising Man Had Been Gilbert[37]
If the Advertising Man Had Been Praed, or Locker[39]
Georgie Porgie[40]
On First Looking into Bee Palmer's Shoulders[41]
To a Vers Librist[43]
How Do You Tackle Your Work?[45]
Recuerdo[48]
On Tradition[51]
Unshackled Thoughts on Chivalry, Romance, Adventure, Etc.[52]
Results Ridiculous[53]
Regarding (1) the U. S. and (2) New York[54]
Broadmindedness[55]
The Jazzy Bard[56]
Lines on and from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"[57]
Thoughts in a Far Country[58]
When You Meet a Man from Your Own Home Town[59]
The Shepherd's Resolution[61]
"It Was a Famous Victory"[62]
On Profiteering[63]
Despite[64]
The Return of the Soldier[65]
"I Remember, I Remember"[66]
The Higher Education[68]
War and Peace[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 Heloïse[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]