Like Musset’s acts, or Locker’s lays,

Brief, elegant, and flimsy.

She loves to woo, to win, to part;

Forsaken and forsaking,

Her heart—she says she has a heart—

Will bear a deal of breaking.

She shines in all things strange and new—

Plays, pictures, Prince’s, polo.

She gives the odds on either Blue,

She never answers “Nolo.”