And midnight oil, to add unto the world

More Bunk.... In vain—in vain!

(She sinks down sobbing.)

(From right and left of stage enter Semi-Choruses Magazine Editors and Book Publishers, tearing their hair rhythmically.)

SEMI-CHORUS OF EDITORS

We have mailed their poems back

To every man and woman-jack

Who weigh the postman down

From country and from town;

But all in vain, in vain,