* * *
We heard someone say: “I do admire Art”;
We blushed as we thought of our striving,
But the next thing they said was a stab to the heart.
’Twas: “Look! She’s so graceful when diving.”
* * *
Every year the bathing regulations grow stricter. If Gus, the hired man, read the ones for Coney Island this year we think he’d say they wear more in the sea than they do on the sidewalk.
* * *
Miss Venus, as perhaps you know,
Had lost her pair of arms;