Still prose sounds so dull when your mind lights on Cobb

And the writer of verse has some chance with the job;

For if ever a chap breathed forth sunlight and wit

And could write and then talk as if they were nit

And wooed you, and held you and made you first gulp

And tighten the throat and made you like pulp

Just to turn you to laughter until your sides ache,—

It’s Cobb: bless his heart and his wit: and I ask him to take

This rotten attempt to bid him God-speed

In taking the world and his wife in those paths