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AMERICAN SHORT STORIES. Selected and edited, with an Introductory Essay on the Short Story, by CHARLES SEARS BALDWIN, A.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Yale University.

AMERICAN LITERARY CRITICISM. Selected and edited, with an Introductory Essay, by WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE, LL.D., Associate Editor of "The Dial.'

AMERICAN FAMILIAR VERSE. Vers de Société. Edited, with an Introduction, by BRANDER MATTHEWs, Litt. D. (Yale), of Columbia University.

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FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN

160973

JOCOSA LYRA

In our hearts is the Great One of Avon

Engraven,

And we climb the cold summits once built on

By Milton.

But at times not the air that is rarest

Is fairest,

And we long in the valley to follow

Apollo.

Then we drop from the heights atmospheric

To Herrick,

Or we pour the Greek honey, grown blander,

Of Landor;

Or our cosiest nook in the shade is

Where Praed is,

Or we toss the light bells of the mocker

With Locker.

Oh, the song where not one of the Graces

Tight-laces

Where we woo the sweet muses not starchly,

But archly

Where the verse, like the piper a-Maying,

Comes playing.

And the rhyme is as gay as a dancer

In answer

It will last till men weary of pleasure
In measure!

It will last till men weary of laughter
And after!