To those who’ve read this sort of verse, the sequel is unusual.
This man (it’s hard on humor, for it breaks the well known laws of it!)
Was happier for his learning, and a great success because of it!
“HALCYON DAYS”
Ere yet the giants of modern science had gone a-slumming in smelly slums,
And through the Ghettos and lazarettos had put in plumbing (and pulled out plums!)
When wily wizards in inky vizards employed their talents at homicide,
And poisoned goblets for faithless squablets by knightly gallants were justified;
When maids were fairest, and baths were rarest, and thaumaturgy was wrought by dames,
When courts were rotten and faith forgotten, and none but clergy could write their names—