But Dewey merely smiled in glee,

"It isn't possible?" quoth he,

"Why, hully gee,

Just wait and see."

MORAL.

Thus onward as through life we go,

Amid the pomp, and glare, and show,

We oft some proverb misconstrue

And mutter boldly, "'Tis not true."

But in their calm, majestic way,