Don't mechanise a maiden's charms;
Leave "polishing" to legs and arms
Of walnut or mahogany.
RHYMES ON THE DECAY OF ROMANCE.
(Suggested by Mr. Frederic Harrison's recent Article in "The Forum.")
Oh, list to Mr. Harrison lamenting from The Forum,
Imagination done to death by latter-day decorum!
"Good boys and girls" we've all become, and modern men and maidens see
The world with such prosaic eyes, Romance is in decadency!