And then when your classmates are singing Once more for good-by the old glees, And the round painted lanterns are swinging And sputtering out in the trees, 

 When everything stales and withers Except the great stars up above, Your heartstrings will all go to smithers, You'll just be one crumple of love. 

 And Adam will be such a duffer (Dear fellow, I mean), he'll contrive, Till you make him, to not make him suffer, The happiest mortal alive. 

 Oh, it makes me too ill to continue, Imagining how it will be When some dapper youth comes to win you And smiles condescension on me! 

 I shall loathe his immaculate breeding, And advise you in time to refuse. To think he will share in your reading, And even unbutton your shoes! 

 And yet when for that precious laddie Your hair is all crinkled and curled, I guess you'll be just like your daddy, The dearest old soul in the world! 

CONCERNING KAVIN.

 When Kavin comes back from the barber, Although he no longer is young, One cheek is as soft as his heart, And the other as smooth as his tongue. ' 

KAVIN AGAIN.

 It is not anything he says, It's just his presence and his smile, The blarney of his silences That cocker and beguile. 

ACROSS THE TABLE. To A. L. L.

To A. L. L.

 Here's to you, Arthur! You and I Have seen a lot of stormy weather, Since first we clinked cups on the sly At school together. 

 The winds of fate have had their will And blown our crafts so far apart We hardly knew if either still Were on the chart. 

 But now I know the love of man Is more than time or space or fate, And laugh to scorn the powers that ban, With you for mate. 

 It's good to have you sitting by, Old man, to prove the world no botch, To shame the devil with your eye And pass the Scotch. 

BARNEY McGEE.

 Barney McGee, there's no end of good luck in you, Will-o'-the-wisp, with a flicker of Puck in you, Wild as a 

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