So wonderful your art, if you preferred

Drayma to opry, you’d be all the mustard;

For you (ecstatic pressmen have averred)

Have Sarah Bernhardt larruped to a custard.

So marvelous your voice, too, if you cared

With turns and trills and tra-la-las to dazzle,

You’d have (enraptured critics have declared)

All other singers beaten to a frazzle.

So eloquent your legs, were it your whim

To caper nimbly in a classic measure,