Of value untold,

These elegant dames of Chautauqua;

But children were few,

You scarce find one or two

In the homes of these dames of Chautauqua.

And sad were the dames of Chautauqua

When they read of the Gracchus,

Of Cupid and Bacchus,

The lesson seemed filled up with mocking.

They longed for a son,