"Their jibes at girls, their games, their curls,
Their wastefulness, their waist,
Their yearnings to hook Dukes and Earls,
Their matrimonial haste,
Are the crude chat of cubs and churls,
And in the vilest taste.
"But when they prate of you and me,
As the two gifts they want,
Say Classic lore and Cookery
Are things for which they pant;