When the boy you hire will call you “Sir,”

Instead of “Say” and “Guverner”;

When the funny man is humorsome—

How can we stand the millennium?

Robert J. Burdette.

THE TOOL

THE man of brains, of fair repute and birth,

Who loves high place above all else of earth—

Who loves it so, he’ll go without the power,

If he may hold the semblance but an hour;