I’ll just write a few words here; so that when

You turn these and life’s pages o’er again,

Your memory back to the time will go,

When you and I were “O” and “Jo.”[[1]]

How we worked together in ’79,

Wafting lightning over the W. U. Line

To W. M.—called “our quod,” you know—

When you and I were “O” and “Jo.”

How Lu talked by the hour to us,