The Dead Men's Song / Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison

by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock

Will flirting give a lady brains—if she hasn’t got any?—

Or solve the esoteric problems hid in Ray’s Third Part?

You may lose yourself completely in pursuing Etiology,

Or safely throw yourself away upon a Cubic Rule;

But nowhere else in nature will you find such useless “ology,”

As in a man who’s dead in love and makes himself a fool.

Quite in contrast, is the delicate little waltz song of Edith’s (Camille D’Arville) in which the ring of the blue bells sounds the gladsomeness of springtime and the intoxication of love.

THE BREATH OF MAY.

Ah! The breath of May!