is Napoleon, shrouded in gloom,

With Nero, Narcissus, and Nordau, to whom

He's explaining the manual of arms with a broom.




is for Oliver, casting aspersion

On Omar, that awfully dissolute Persian,

Though secretly longing to join the diversion.




is for Peter, who hollers "No! No!"

Through the keyhole to Paine, Paderewski, and Poe.




is the Queen, so noble and free—

For further particulars look under V.



'S
Rubenstein, playing that old thing in F

To Rollo and Rembrandt, who wish they were deaf.