Alone 'mid the other spoils

Of youth,—masks, gloves and foils,

And pipe-sticks, rose, cherry-tree, jasmine,

And the long whip, the tandem-lasher,

And the cast from a fist ("not, alas! mine,

But my master's, the Tipton Slasher"),

And the cards where pistol-balls mark ace,

And a satin shoe uses for cigar-case,

And the chamois-horns ("shot in the Chablais"),

And prints—Rarey drumming on Cruiser,