"MISS RED SASH"--my programme can't even relate
Your name, and I know nothing more
Of your tastes. Do you talk of high Art--or the state
Of the floor?
Has Girton or Newnham endeavoured to clog
With stiffest of science your brain;
Or are you prepared to discourse of the fog
And the rain?
Do politics please you? Uganda, perhaps,
Or the Cabinet crisis in France?
Or would you remark that a great many chaps
Never dance?
Is IBSEN your idol, with plays that are noise,
Some say nauseous; is he a sage?
Or are you contented to see a live horse
On the stage?
You love PADEREWSKI, and would not be false
To your faith in BRAHMS, GRIEG, WAGNER and
CO.; or you are awfully pleased with this valse,
And this Band?
I'll fan you, and hear if you then will repeat
Facts on currents of air, or simoom;
Or simper, and smilingly speak of the heat
Of the room.
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A GOOD "SECOND".--A Dutch Oyster.
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