Ventures Into Verse / Being various ballads, ballades, rondeaux, triolets, songs, quatrains, odes and roundels, all rescued from the potters' field of old files and here given decent burial

by H. L. Mencken

Oh! we've stolen sweet kisses from thousands of misses,

But hers are the sweetest that be.

Her name may be Ahlo or Nina,

Or Zanez or Lalamaloo;

She may smoke the cigars

Of the chino bazars,

And prefer black maduros to you;

She may speak a wild six-cornered lingo,

And say that your Spanish is queer,

But you'll never mind this