(With whom all the Cubies are madly in love;)

Her manner is so prepossessing and sweet

That, if she but had them, we’d fall at her feet!

(In her eyes, what a mingling of serpent and dove!)

—M’s for Matisse’s Mam’selle Marguerite.


N ’s for the Nudes that the Cubies portray,—

We willingly vouch for their perfect propriety,