Beside me sighing in the Wilderness—

Wilderness? It’s Desert, Sister, now.

VII

Some for a Sunday without Taint, and Some

Sigh for Inebriate Paradise to come,

While Moonshine takes the Cash (no Credit goes)

And real old Stuff demands a Premium.

A Book of Blue Laws underneath the Bough,
A pot of Tea, a piece of Toast,—and Thou ...