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

Of Cupid, and upon the battered air

I hear a rumor floating. It is this:

That when the boy god shuffles to the grave

'Tis Syncopated Sambo that will get

His job!

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Ah, me! What sadness resteth on my soul!

FINIS

There was a man that delved in the earth

For glittering gems and gold,