Something Else Again

Unshackled Thoughts on Chivalry, Romance, Adventure, Etc. 52 Results Ridiculous 53 Regarding (1) the U. S. and (2) New York 54 Broadmindedness 55 The Jazzy Bard 56 Lines on and from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" 57 Thoughts in a Far Country 58 When You Meet a Man from Your Own Home Town 59 The Shepherd's Resolution 61 "It Was a Famous Victory" 62 On Profiteering 63 Despite 64 The Return of the Soldier 65 "I Remember, I Remember" 66 The Higher Education 68 War and Peace 69 Fifty-Fifty 70 "So Shines a Good Deed in a Naughty World" 71 Vain Words 72 On the Importance of Being Earnest 73 It Happens in the B. R. Families 74 Abelard and Heloïse 77 Lines Written on the Sunny Side of Frankfort Street 79 Fifty-Fifty 80 To Myrtilla 81 A Psalm of Labouring Life 82 Ballade of Ancient Acts 84 To a Prospective Cook 85 Variation on a Theme 86 "Such Stuff as Dreams" 88 The Ballad of Justifiable Homicide 89 The Ballad of the Murdered Merchant 90 A Gotham Garden of Verses 92 Lines on Reading Frank J. Wilstach's "A Dictionary of Similes" 94 The Dictaphone Bard 95 The Comfort of Obscurity 97 Ballade of the Traffickers 98 To W. Hohenzollern, on Discontinuing The Conning Tower 100 To W. Hohenzollern, on Resuming The Conning Tower 103 Thoughts on the Cosmos 105 On Environment 106 The Ballad of the Thoughtless Waiter 107 Rus Vs. Urbs 109 "I'm Out of the Army Now" 110 "Oh Man!" 112 An Ode in Time of Inauguration 113 What the Copy Desk Might Have Done 124 Song of Synthetic Virility 133 SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN Present Imperative Horace: Book I, Ode 11 "Tu ne quaesieris—scire nefas—quem mihi; quem tibi——" AD LEUCONOEN Nay, query not, Leuconoë, the finish of the fable; Eliminate the worry as to what the years may hoard! You only waste your time upon the Babylonian Table— (Slang for the Ouija board). And as to whether Jupiter, the final, unsurpassed one, May add a lot of winters to our portion here below, Or this impinging season is to be our very last one— Really, I'd hate to know. Apply yourself to wisdom! Sweep the floor and wash the dishes, Nor dream about the things you'll do in 1928! My counsel is to cease to sit and yearn about your wishes, Cursing the throws of Fate. My! how I…