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

In sophist garb to waste your quills?—

Sing us again of Mandalay!

Sing us again in rhymes that ring,

In Master-Voice that lives and thrills.

Sing us again of wind and wing,

Of temple bells and jungle thrills;

And if your Pegasus e'er wills

To lead you down some other way,

Go bind him in his olden thills—

Sing us again of Mandalay!