A Collaborative Poem by E. M. T. and F. R. S.

We walked in a garden of roses,

Miss Jane, Sir Cupid, and I—

Nay, rather, she walked by herself,

And never would answer me why.

The more I besought her, still farther

And farther she flitted ahead,

Laughing and scattering roses—

Roses, the white and the red.

At last she gave me her “reason;”