Rowing and Football take up half their time,
Lawn-tennis too is voted “quite sublime.”
Thus time is spent in learning, it is true,
But not in learning what they ought to do.
Life is a game, so many people say,
And they win easiest who have learned to play.
III.
I’ve said before, and won’t my words forsake,
That “every woman is at heart a rake”;
Perhaps, I may with greater justice say,