The wonderful wit and wisdom they boast,
* C. J. Hare, author of "Guesses at Truth."
When the time arrives they must give up the ghost,
Become quite phantasmagorical,—
And it's found at the last that they know as much
Of the secret of LIFE—as they do of Dutch—
Or, if a lame verse may borrow a crutch,
As was known by the Delphic Oracle.
Into being we come, in ones and twos,
To be kiss'd, to be cuffd, to obey, to abuse,