You cannot do better, I vow,
Than make that same maxim your boyhood's first rule,
As your very first tip in your very first school.
Don't look like a pedagogue, do I, my lad?
And indeed I am not an Orbilius Plagosus,
Like him who made juvenile FLACCUS so sad.
How well the Venusian knows us!
Under the Mistletoe Bough
He never kissed maid, but somehow
Our Dickensish Season he seemed to divine