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-Title: Gay gods and merry mortals
-       some excursions in verse
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-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAY GODS AND MERRY MORTALS ***
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-
-
-                              GAY GODS
-                                _and_
-                            MERRY MORTALS
-
-
-
-
-                            GAY GODS AND
-                            MERRY MORTALS
-
-                      SOME EXCURSIONS IN VERSE
-
-                         BY ROBERT J. SHORES
-
-                     [Illustration: (Colophon)]
-
-                       BROADWAY PUBLISHING CO.
-
-                              NEW YORK
-                                1910
-
-
-
-
-                          COPYRIGHT, 1910,
-
-                                 BY
-
-                          ROBERT J. SHORES
-
-
-
-
-                          TITLES AND PAGES
-
-
-  Proem                                                              7
-
-  Actæon                                                             8
-
-  Adonis                                                            10
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-  Proserpina                                                        13
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-  Anaxarete                                                         16
-
-  Penelope                                                          18
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-  Sappho                                                            20
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-  Syrinx                                                            22
-
-  Tithonus                                                          24
-
-  Ariadne                                                           27
-
-  Io                                                                29
-
-  Dido                                                              32
-
-  Daphne                                                            37
-
-
-
-
-                     Gay Gods and Merry Mortals
-
-
-                               PROEM.
-
-
-      _Some ancient tales of Pagan days
-        The author of this book relates
-      Explaining how in divers ways
-        The gods displayed their human traits;
-          And how they oft in other years
-          Set human beings by the ears._
-
-      _Belike these rhymes recall to you
-        The jingles of the poet Saxe;
-      The poet here is Saxon, too,
-        And so must needs relate his facts
-          In such a way that they are clear
-          And suited to the Saxon ear._
-
-      _Some anecdotes which Homer told
-        You’ll miss in this; but reader, pray
-      Consider, what was good of old
-        Would never pass the mails to-day.
-          And hence this history belated
-          Has been--well, slightly expurgated._
-
-
-
-
-                               ACTÆON.
-
-           _“He saw her charming, but he saw not half
-            The charms her downcast modesty concealed.”_
-
-                                                           --Thomson.
-
-
-      Actæon, with the winding horn,
-        Pursued the Chase in ardent youth
-      And what he wore when he was born;
-        (And little else, to tell the truth,
-          For in those days of which I speak
-          They just changed sandals once a week!)
-          And as he wandered from the path,
-          Chanced on Diana in her bath.
-
-      All trembling, like a startled fawn,
-        Upstarted then the Goddess chaste,
-      Sprang from the pool the bank upon
-        And donned her crescent in great haste,
-          (For, to her credit be it said,
-          She _did_ wear something on her head,)
-          Then, the conventions satisfied
-          Gazed on Actæon, haughty-eyed.
-
-      Actæon tumbled in a trice
-        That he had got himself in Dutch,
-      But thought if quite polite and nice
-        She would not mind the thing so much.
-          So the poor fool in this fond hope
-          Said, “Tell me, did you use Pear’s Soap?”
-          Diana, vexed to hear the gag,
-          Forthwith made Actæon a stag.
-
-      The Moral is, if you should chance
-        Upon a lady in the nude,
-      Remember this sad circumstance,
-        For she’ll get even if you’re rude;
-          And conversation, if uncouth,
-          May cost you dear in naked truth!
-
-
-
-
-                               ADONIS.
-
-
-      Dan Cupid with a broken shaft
-        Had bent his grand-dad, Jove, quite double,
-      And then, to cap the climax, laughed;
-        And so he found himself in trouble;
-          Up on that august lap was yanked
-          And thoroughly and soundly spanked,
-          Till Cupid saddened, sobered, sore,
-          Wished that his wings had sprouted lower.
-
-      Dan Cupid then in rage and grief
-        Straightway set out to find his mother,
-      Who stitched upon her evening leaf,
-        (She swore she didn’t have another,
-          Or, if she had, she still would swear
-          She had none that was fit to wear.)
-          And so the naughty youngster found her
-          With leaves and sewing girls around her.
-
-      When Venus heard her infant’s wail,
-        In apprehension she besought him
-      To tell her all his angry tale;
-        Then to her breast she, breathless, caught him.
-          And, as his tear-stained face she kissed,
-          Upon an arrow scratched her wrist.
-          So in her veins in this strange fashion
-          Was introduced the germ of passion.
-
-      Indignant at the godlet’s tale,
-        She hastened to protest to Zeus,
-      Her lovely cheek with anger pale,
-        She was prepared to raise the deuce.
-          But as Olympus’ mount drew near,
-          She spied Adonis chasing deer.
-          And in a moment from her head
-          All thoughts of wrath and Cupid fled.
-
-      Straightway she hitched her gentle team
-        Of doves, and left her carriage standing,
-      For this fair youth to her doth seem
-        A hero, comely and commanding--
-          Although in fact and eke in truth
-          He was a simple country youth;
-          And so it happened that the Queen
-          Of Beauty found him shy and green
-
-      Now, Venus, veteran at the game
-        Of flirting, would not be denied;
-      As goddesses can feel no shame,
-        She soon was anchored to his side;
-          Do what he would, he could not shake her,
-          Go where he would, he had to take her;
-          Until one morn upon the plain
-          She found the fair Adonis slain.
-
-      This story should a warning be
-        To maidens bold who wish to woo,
-      For if you seek your lover, he
-        Most certainly will not seek you;
-          All men may love, but just the same
-          They would be hunters--not the game.
-          Adonis, so the story saith,
-          Was really simply boared to death!
-
-
-
-
-                             PROSERPINA.
-
-         “_Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluk’d, she eat;
-           Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
-           Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
-           That all was lost._”
-
-                                                            --Milton.
-
-
-      On Aetna’s isle Dis Pluto drove
-        His devil-wagon one fine day,
-      And passing through fair Enna’s grove
-        Beheld Proserpina at play;
-          He asked, “Will you not take a ride?”
-          “You’re very kind,” the maid replied,
-          And stepped into his turn-out swell;
-          And that was how she went to hell.
-
-      For Pluto, whipping up his team,
-        Sped on toward Tartarus in mirth,
-      And when opposed by Cyane’s stream,
-        He took a short-cut through the earth.
-          Nor paused, nor drew his rein before
-          He heard Cerberus’ welcome roar,
-          And sniffed the smell of singeing soul
-          By which he knew he’d reached his goal.
-
-      Ceres, Proserpina’s mamma,
-        Was almost crazed with grief and fear;
-      (As to Proserpina’s papa,
-        His name I never chanced to hear),
-          She cursed for all that she was worth
-          The crops and fruits of Mother Earth;
-          “You’ll bear no fruit,” she told the Ground,
-          “Until my Prossie has been found!”
-
-      Jove, who beheld the farmer’s need,
-        And saw the season’s crops all fail,
-      Said, “This is Cereous, indeed,
-        That fellow Dis should be in jail!”
-          “I think,” said Juno, “’twere as well--
-          It does no good to give him hell;”
-          And so it might have been decreed
-          But for one small pomegranate seed.
-
-      In Hades Ceres’ daughter sweet
-        Was offered luscious bread and jam,
-      But she was much too cross to eat
-        And even scorned the deviled ham;
-          Until at last she made a slip
-          And swallowed a pomegranate pip;
-          Now, they who eat in hell--alack!
-          To earth may never more come back.
-
-      The Moral is--don’t take a chance
-        Joy-riding with a strange chauffeur,
-      Remember this sad circumstance
-        Or you will get in trouble sure.
-          If you _must_ go--don’t go alone,
-          The devil hates a chaperone.
-          So mind the pips and look alive--
-          Dis Pluto often goes to drive!
-
-
-
-
-                             ANAXARETE.
-
-
-      In Cyprus dwelt Anaxarete,
-        A maiden famous for her beauty,
-      With disposition far from sweet,
-        Who looked on flirting as a duty.
-          ’Tis said she scarcely would despise
-          At slaves and such to roll her eyes,
-          ’Till most the men of Cyprus were
-          In love, or half in love with her.
-
-      Young Iphis was a worthy lad
-        And born of parents poor but proud;
-      He was a credit to his dad,
-        Until one day while in a crowd
-          He chanced a college chum to meet
-          Out walking with Anaxarete;
-          And when she rolled her lovely eyes
-          Poor Iphis gasped in glad surprise.
-
-      One glance, and Iphis was her slave,
-        All other interests he forgot;
-      Forgot to eat, forgot to shave,
-        And wrote in rhyme a deal of rot
-          To prove his heart was at the feet
-          Of stony-cold Anaxarete;
-          Who met his protests and his tears
-          With cutting jests and crushing sneers.
-
-      For Ana, as do all coquettes,
-        So soon grew aweary of his wooing,
-      And Iphis took to cigarettes,
-        But still she answered “Nothing doing!”
-          And added--insult ne’er forgotten!
-          She thought his poetry was rotten;
-          And finally to fix his place
-          She slammed the door in Iphis’ face.
-
-      When Iphis saw that all was past,
-        And knew that he could call no more,
-      He took a rope and made it fast
-        And hanged himself before her door.
-          And, when his funeral passed her place,
-          She thought to mock his pallid face;
-          But Venus, leaning from her throne,
-          Had seen, and turned the maid to stone.
-
-      At Salamis, her statue still
-        Points to the Moral of this tale--
-      That any maid who flirts to kill
-        Is really quite beyond the pale.
-          And as for lovers; let me say
-          If she is bored, just go away;
-          No gentleman, and this I know,
-          Will hang about when he’s _de trop_!
-
-
-
-
-                              PENELOPE.
-
-            “_Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
-             To err is human, to forgive, divine._”
-
-                                                              --Pope.
-
-
-      Penelope, a Spartan maid,
-        The brave Ulysses wooed and wed,
-      She in a modest blush arrayed,
-        He with a crown upon his head.
-          Two hearts that beat as one--no tear
-          Bedimmed their bliss for one whole year;
-          At Ithaca they dwelt in peace--
-          Not Ithaca, New York--but Greece.
-
-      Alas! Scarce had been born their boy,
-        An infant very fair and bright,
-      When came a horrid war in Troy
-        And papa had to go and fight.
-          He left Penelope in tears--
-          He went and stayed for years and years;
-          And while away, I am afraid,
-          He sometimes wooed another maid.
-
-      In many lands he dwelt as guest
-        Of ladies of exceeding beauty;
-      Ulysses, it must be confessed,
-        In flirting quite forgot his duty.
-          He flirted here, he flirted there,
-          In fact he flirted everywhere--
-          With Calypso, Nausicaa, Circe--
-          And he a man of family--Mercy!
-
-      Penelope, dissolved in tears,
-        Bewailed her spouse--the faithless Turk!
-      And stood off suitors twenty years
-        By doing endless fancy work.
-          By day she made her stitches right,
-          But pulled them out again by night,
-          Until her husband, tired of larks,
-          Came home and slew that bunch of sparks.
-
-      The husband, even though he err
-        And lead abroad a lively life,
-      Dislikes, when he comes back to her,
-        To find that others woo his wife.
-          Ulysses lacked in morals--true,
-          But she had quite enough for two--
-          May Eros grant a wife to me
-          As patient as Penelope!
-
-
-
-
-                               SAPPHO.
-
-
-      Sappho was pretty all agree,
-        Some say that she was stately,
-      You cannot prove it, though, by me--
-        I haven’t seen her lately.
-          In fact, I do not now recall
-          I ever saw the girl at all.
-          So we must take Dame Rumor’s word
-          That Sappho was, indeed, a bird.
-
-      Now, Sappho in her younger years,
-        Was wooed by men a-plenty,
-      And setting suitors by the ears
-        Amused her much at twenty.
-          She swore she’d not, at twenty-five,
-          Accept the nicest man alive,
-          And laughed to scorn the ardent Greek
-          Who sought to kiss her damask cheek.
-
-      But Sappho finds as years roll on,
-        As oft a maid discovers,
-      That when a maiden’s youth is gone,
-        Gone also are her lovers.
-          No suitor hangs about her door
-          To wait her coming as of yore;
-          And what is worse than all above--
-          Just at this stage she falls in love.
-
-      Just what she does, if tales are truth,
-        (Fie on that rascal Cupid!)
-      Is to select a verdant youth,
-        A handsome boy, but stupid!
-          She tries her best to win his heart
-          With all her once unfailing art,
-          But finds--ah, Eros! think of that!
-          That Phaon thinks her old and fat.
-
-      Poor Sappho keenly feels the shame
-        Of love quite unrequited,
-      And though she knows herself to blame,
-        She feels her life is blighted.
-          And so when some one tells her if
-          She will jump off a handy cliff
-          ’Twill cure her of her love and dumps--
-          She rushes out--ah! ah--she jumps!
-
-      Ah, reader, let us pause right here
-        To drop a tiny, briny tear;
-      Alas! Alack! Oh, woeful sight--
-        It cured her of her love, all right!
-          Fair maidens, heed this circumstance--
-          Don’t jump off cliffs--jump at your chance!
-
-
-
-
-                               SYRINX.
-
-           “_Poor nymph--poor Pan--how he did weep to find
-            Naught but a lovely sighing of the wind
-            Along the reedy stream; a half-heard strain,
-            Full of sweet desolation, balmy pain._”
-
-                                                             --Keats.
-
-
-      In Greece there dwelt in days gone by
-        A maiden huntress, passing fair,
-        Who lived beneath the open sky
-      And dearly loved the open air.
-        Although it really seems a shame
-          To call a lady such a name,
-          This lovely nymph was called, methinks,
-          S-y-r-i-n-x, Syrinx.
-
-      Syrinx, while following the Chase,
-        Was seen one day by ardent Pan,
-      A god of most repulsive face,
-        A sort of burlesque on a man.
-          If we can trust what ancients wrote,
-          Poor Pan was really half a goat--
-          Not like the Peter Pan to-day
-          The Misses Chase and Adams play.
-
-      When Pan began swift to pursue,
-        The maiden in her terror fled,
-      (I cannot blame her much, can you?)
-        And ran ’till she was almost dead;
-          But friendly spirits in a stream
-          Had heard and understood her scream,
-          And they had changed her in a wink
-          To reeds upon the river’s brink.
-
-      The god, though thwarted in his scheme
-        To win the nymph, was not dismayed.
-      He plucked the reeds beside the stream
-        And from them a “Syrinx” he made.
-          The shepherd’s pipes--so came to man
-          The music of the Pipes o’ Pan.
-
-      The Moral? There is none; you see
-      Pan was, as poets all agree,
-      A most _immoral_ deity!
-
-
-
-
-                              TITHONUS.
-
-
-      Tithonus, royal prince of Troy,
-        All mortal maidens’ beauty scorning,
-      Chose for his love, presumptuous boy!
-        Aurora, goddess of the morning.
-          To her he wrote his royal rhymes,
-          For her he saved his royal dimes;
-          So well, indeed, he played his part,
-          He won at last the goddess’ heart.
-
-      Aurora, wise as gods must be,
-        Was well aware that all men perish,
-      And knowing this she bent the knee,
-        (What won’t we do for those we cherish!)
-          And thus she prayed to Jove on high:
-          “Oh, _please_ don’t let Tithonus die!”
-          And this, the whole of her endeavor--
-          That Tithy, dear, might live forever.
-
-      Now, Jove, although a deity,
-        Was very fond of mortal ladies,
-      And more than once, he, even he,
-        Had grieved to see them go to Hades.
-          “I quite agree with you,” he said,
-          “Tithonus would be dull if dead.
-          So be content, I, even I,
-          Decree Tithonus shall not die!”
-
-      Aurora, full of love and joy,
-        Laughed out in Pluto’s face of gloom,
-      And hastened off to tell her boy
-        That she had saved him from the tomb.
-          But, ah, how foolish to forget
-          One other evil to be met!
-          ’Tis sad to say, but must be told,
-          She quite forgot he might grow old.
-
-      Grow old he did, as most men do,
-        Grew gray and bald and round of tummy;
-      Grew deaf, grew cross and crabbed, too;
-        Grew bent and wrinkled like a mummy.
-          “Oh, Gee! Oh, Fudge! My Sakes! Good Lands!
-          What’s this I’ve got upon my hands?”
-          Aurora cried, nor gave a hang
-          Who heard her use such vulgar slang.
-
-      “Alas!” she cried, “is it decreed--
-        And it is even right and proper?
-      That I forever more should feed
-        A foolish, mulish old grasshopper?”
-          Tithonus hopped--for, you must know
-          That what a goddess says is _so_!
-          Tithonus, stricken but resigned,
-          Hopped out of sight and out of mind.
-
-      The Moral is--that age and youth
-        Have aye been illy yoked together,
-      For love cannot survive, in truth,
-        A prolonged spell of wintry weather.
-          So, when you hear your lady sigh:
-          “Alas! My Love will _never_ die!”
-          Just heed Aurora’s hint, I say,
-          And hope no more--but hop away!
-
-
-
-
-                              ARIADNE.
-
-            “_Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
-             And Jove but laughs at lover’s perjury._”
-
-                                                            --Dryden.
-
-
-      The Minotaur, a horrid beast
-        Which made its food of maidens fair
-      And handsome youths, to say the least
-        Had given Athens quite a scare.
-          Since Athens sent each year to Crete
-          A batch of folks for him to eat;
-          ’Till on King Minos Athens soured,
-          For no one likes to be devoured.
-
-      Just as the folks of Athens had
-        Prepared to risk their all in war,
-      Young Theseus, to the King, his dad,
-        Proffered his services and swore
-          That he would go to Crete and slay
-          The Minotaur without delay;
-          And so with helmet-box and grip
-          He started on the fateful trip.
-
-      Now, Minos had a daughter fair,
-        Who was humane as well as Cretan,
-      And all in all, she did not care
-        To see the handsome stranger eaten.
-          So she resolved that she would aid
-          Young Theseus in his escapade,
-          Although she knew her royal dad
-          Would certainly be hopping mad.
-
-      The Minotaur, King Minos kept
-        Within a sort of mystic maze,
-      And in those corridors, unswept,
-        A man might wander, lost, for days.
-          And Ariadne’s scheme, in fine,
-          Was just to take a ball of twine
-          And let the youth unroll the thing
-          And so be guided by the string.
-
-      All went as planned--oh, lucky star!
-        The sword of Theseus soon was wet,
-      And slaughtered was the Minotaur;
-        The king had lost his gruesome pet.
-          The lovers fled the monarch’s wrath
-          But even on the homeward path
-          The hero, bored to hear her weep,
-          On Noxas left her fast asleep.
-
-      The Moral is--you should not string
-        Young men, unless you know them well;
-      For love is an uncertain thing
-        And strange young men, however swell,
-          If loosely tied and quickly bored,
-          Will quit you of their own accord.
-
-
-
-
-                                 Io.
-
-
-      Io and Jove were holding hands
-        One day beside a sylvan stream
-      And drawing hearts upon the sands--
-        Epitome of Love’s young dream!
-          Fair Io murmured, “On my life,
-          Why took you Juno for your wife?
-          The ox-eyed Juno! In good sooth
-          Peroxide would be nearer truth!”
-
-      “Tut-tut!” said Jove, “you should not speak
-        So slightingly of my good spouse;
-      She has been busy all this week
-        Up on Olympus cleaning house.
-          And while she sweeps, I’ve naught to do
-          But stay here making love to you!”
-          “She would do well,” the maid replies,
-          “To sweep the dust from out her eyes.”
-
-      Alas for Io! Juno heard
-        Her idle words within the hour;
-      Some gossip of a bee or bird
-        Repeated them from flower to flower,
-          Until ’twas whispered by the leaves
-          At Juno’s threshold--“Jove deceives!”
-          “Deceived again?” she cried in rage;
-          To see what happened, turn the page.
-
-      Or, if the printer can find room
-        To print another line on this,
-      I’ll state that Juno heard a boom
-        Of thunder--which is when gods kiss.
-          And hurried angrily to where
-          She thought to find the erring pair;
-          But reaching there she saw, I vow,
-          No maiden, but a heifer cow!
-
-      For Jove, grown wise in other years
-        In which he got his just deserts,
-      Was ever pricking up his ears
-        To hear the swish of Juno’s skirts.
-          So, when he heard her on his trail,
-          He made his hat a milking pail
-          And changed poor Io, trembling now,
-          Into the semblance of a cow.
-
-      But Juno was not quite a fool
-        And saw at once her husband’s trick,
-      And, though appearing calm and cool,
-        Resolved to make that heifer sick.
-          “A lovely cow!” cried she. “Divine!
-          I cannot rest ’till it is mine!”
-          Jove cleared his throat and smoothed his vest
-          But had to grant his wife’s request.
-
-      Alas for Io! Juno sent
-        A gad-fly which beset her sore,
-      And drove her--which was the intent--
-        From sea to sea and shore to shore.
-          To Egypt and the Barbadoes,
-          Perhaps to Iowa--who knows?
-          The gad-fly followed where she went
-          And stung her to his heart’s content.
-
-      And so it happens, even now,
-        Although she vainly tries to grab it,
-      The gad-fly stings the gentle cow--
-        He keeps it up from force of habit.
-
-
-
-
-                                DIDO.
-
-        “_Up, then, Melpomene! the mournfulest Muse of Nine,
-         Such cause of mourning never hadst afore;
-         Up, grislie ghostes! and up, my rufull rhyme!_”
-
-                                                           --Spenser.
-
-
-      “On such a night,” as Shakespeare once remarked,
-        On such a night as lovers love to spoon,
-      Aeneas in his cockleshell embarked
-        And left poor Dido weeping ’neath the moon;
-          A palm-leaf in her hand, as Shakespeare said,
-          The crown of ancient Carthage on her head;
-          ’Twas thus Aeneas jilted the fair dame
-          And put the chivalry of Greece to shame.
-
-      Fair Dido, to go back a little way,
-        Had fled the vengeance of her brother’s ire,
-      Who slew her wealthy husband one fine day
-        And chased his widowed sister out of Tyre;
-          Pygmalion was the name he bore at court,
-          Though Dido always called him “Pyg” for short;
-          Methinks the greedy nature of the youth
-          Made Dido’s nickname fit him well in truth.
-
-      Arriving, then, on Afric’s sunny shore
-        With some few friends who followed in her train,
-      She built herself some houses and a store,
-        Laid out a street and called it Lover’s Lane.
-          And since the town was hers, none could gainsay
-          Her right to royal rule and social sway;
-          And so it is quite easy to be seen
-          How, when Aeneas came, he found her queen.
-
-      Aeneas and some refugees from Troy
-        Were wandering about uncharted seas;
-      Aeneas had a cold--unlucky boy!
-        (’Twould wring your heart to hear his mournful sneeze!)
-          In fact, they all were troubled as to nose,
-          Clad as they were in lightest marching clothes;
-          So when they came at last to Dido’s land,
-          They were a sick and sorry-looking band.
-
-      “Not unacquainted with distress,” she said,
-        “I’ve learned to succor all the down and out;”
-      Straightway she had them all tucked into bed,
-        And caused her heralds in the street to shout:
-          “Queen Dido seeks a sovereign cure for chills,
-          Bring mustard plasters, poultices and pills;
-          The victor she’ll reward and make his name
-          A synonym for fortune and for fame.”
-
-      As always, when incentive is supplied,
-        Some pharmacist got busy on the spot,
-      Made little pills with quinine stuffed inside;
-        She made him rich, but famous he is not.
-          We take them now, but who is there can tell
-          The doctor who first served mankind so well?
-          But let us haste--this yarn, beyond all doubt,
-          Grows dull apace, and slow, and long-drawn-out.
-
-      To cut it short; she loved him; he loved her;
-        He stuck around; she made him quite at home;
-      The two were quite domestic I infer
-        Until Aeneas took a boat for Rome.
-          Rome wasn’t there--but what cared he for that?
-          ’Most any town will do to dodge a flat;
-          Aeneas felt that he could love that spot,
-          Where’er it be--so be Dido was not.
-
-      Dido, deserted, built a funeral pyre,
-        On which she mounted with a wicked knife;
-      She bade a servant set the thing afire,
-        And with the dagger put an end to life.
-          So perished Dido; died, oh died for love!
-          So Dido died, as I have said above,
-          Sweet Dido, loveliest lady of the land,
-          On such a night--a palm-leaf in her hand!
-
-      The Moral? This is not a moral tale.
-        What do we learn from it? Well, I should say
-      We learn that merry widows sometimes fail,
-        And cutting didoes doesn’t always pay.
-
-
-
-
-                               DAPHNE.
-
-
-      Fair Daphne was a modest miss,
-        A convert of the “Kiss Not” fad,
-      Who swore no man should know her kiss,
-        Unless it be her dear old dad.
-          E’en as a tot it caused her grief
-          To play at “Drop the handkerchief”;
-          She called each youthful suitor, “Brute!”
-          Who offered her a chaste salute.
-
-      In vain her father bade her wed,
-        In vain he urged, in vain entreated;
-      She only shook her pretty head,
-        And all his arguments defeated.
-          “Talk not of men,” she said. “To me,
-          Diana’s priestess I would be,
-          And range the woods, heart-free, foot-loose,
-          To kill the chipmunk and the moose.”
-
-      “Ah, well!” he sighed (It is a shame,
-        And rather mars this graceful verse,
-      I cannot rhyme his beastly name),
-        “Ah, well! Perhaps you might do worse.
-          I longed for grand-sons, but”--a sigh--
-          “The cost of living sure is high;
-          I’m tired of fish and long for liver!”
-          Her pa, Peneus, was a river.
-
-      And so it happened, Daphne did
-        Devote her days unto the Chase;
-      Whenever she saw a man, she hid;
-        Nor would she show her pretty face
-          To any man except her father;
-          A modest little maiden? Rather!
-          So modest she--she would not flirt
-          Her dainty little hunting skirt!
-
-      Though best-laid plans of mice and men
-        May go astray; no mouse, no man,
-      Can hope to bring the wit in play
-        That e’en the dullest godling can.
-          For gods beat human folks all hollow--
-          Especially the god Apollo;
-          Apollo, who was far from stupid,
-          Had heard of Daphne from Dan Cupid,
-          And he resolved that he would see
-          How true young Cupid’s tale might be.
-
-      He laid in wait and spied the maid,
-        Who tripped along the woodland path,
-      In haste and somewhat disarrayed,
-        Intent upon her evening bath,
-          Not dreaming that a soul was near,
-          Until upon her startled ear
-          There broke a single love-lorn sigh,
-          Which warned her that the god was nigh.
-
-      Then like a startled fawn she fled,
-        The grass scarce bending ’neath her feet,
-      Her hair out-streaming from her head,
-        Her face as pale as any sheet.
-          And as she fled the god pursued,
-          (A most ungentle act, and rude!)
-          And gained, and gained, and gained so fast,
-          She thought her breath must fail at last!
-
-      “Help! Help!” she cried. “Peneus, aid
-        Your daughter--save, oh, save me now!
-      So weary and so sore afraid!”
-        And in a moment on her brow
-      Some tiny twigs began to grow,
-        Her feet took root--for, you must know,
-          Her father, by divine decree,
-          Transformed his daughter to a tree!
-
-      “Ah!” sighed Apollo, “what is this?
-        My tree! You can’t escape me now!”
-      Upon her trunk he pressed a kiss--
-        Poor Daphne blushed in every bough;
-        “You have,” said he, “a lovely limb;”
-      (Say, honest, I’m ashamed of him!)
-        How sad to see a perfect lady
-        Become a character so shady!
-
-      The Moral is--be careful how
-        You dress when you go out to swim;
-      Poor Daphne might be hunting now,
-        Instead of wearing trunks for him!
-
-
-
-
-      [Illustration]
-
-      HERE ENDETH
-
-      [Illustration]
-
-      THIS LITTLE BOOK
-
-      [Illustration]
-
-      OF
-
-      [Illustration]
-
-      PAGAN POEMS
-
-      [Illustration]
-
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-<em>and</em><br />
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-<p class="pfs200 p2">GAY GODS AND<br />
-MERRY MORTALS</p>
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-<td class="tdl">Proem</td>
-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
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-<td class="tdl">Actæon</td>
-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td>
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-<td class="tdl">Adonis</td>
-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td>
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-<td class="tdl">Io</td>
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-<p class="pfs135 p2 pb2">Gay Gods and Merry Mortals</p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="PROEM">PROEM.</h2>
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-    <div class="versey drop-capy2"><em><span class="drop-capy1">SOME</span> ancient tales of Pagan days</em></div>
-    <div class="versey"><em>The author of this book relates</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><em>Explaining how in divers ways</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><em>The gods displayed their human traits;</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent4"><em>And how they oft in other years</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent4"><em>Set human beings by the ears.</em></div>
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-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0"><em>Belike these rhymes recall to you</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><em>The jingles of the poet Saxe;</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><em>The poet here is Saxon, too,</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><em>And so must needs relate his facts</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent4"><em>In such a way that they are clear</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent4"><em>And suited to the Saxon ear.</em></div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0"><em>Some anecdotes which Homer told</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><em>You’ll miss in this; but reader, pray</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><em>Consider, what was good of old</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><em>Would never pass the mails to-day.</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent4"><em>And hence this history belated</em></div>
-    <div class="verse indent4"><em>Has been&mdash;well, slightly expurgated.</em></div>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="ACTAEON">ACTÆON.</h2>
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-<div class="blockquot">
-<p class="noindent"><em>“He saw her charming, but he saw not half<br />
-The charms her downcast modesty concealed.”</em></p>
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-<p class="pad60pc">&mdash;Thomson.</p>
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-    <div class="versey drop-capy">ACTÆON, with the winding horn,</div>
-    <div class="versey indent4">Pursued the Chase in ardent youth</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And what he wore when he was born;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">(And little else, to tell the truth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">For in those days of which I speak</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">They just changed sandals once a week!)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And as he wandered from the path,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Chanced on Diana in her bath.</div>
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-    <div class="verse indent0">All trembling, like a startled fawn,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Upstarted then the Goddess chaste,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sprang from the pool the bank upon</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And donned her crescent in great haste,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">(For, to her credit be it said,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She <em>did</em> wear something on her head,)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Then, the conventions satisfied</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Gazed on Actæon, haughty-eyed.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span>
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-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Actæon tumbled in a trice</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That he had got himself in Dutch,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But thought if quite polite and nice</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She would not mind the thing so much.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So the poor fool in this fond hope</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Said, “Tell me, did you use Pear’s Soap?”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Diana, vexed to hear the gag,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Forthwith made Actæon a stag.</div>
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-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Moral is, if you should chance</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Upon a lady in the nude,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Remember this sad circumstance,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">For she’ll get even if you’re rude;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And conversation, if uncouth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">May cost you dear in naked truth!</div>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span></p>
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-    <div class="versey drop-capy">DAN CUPID with a broken shaft</div>
-    <div class="versey indent4">Had bent his grand-dad, Jove, quite double,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And then, to cap the climax, laughed;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And so he found himself in trouble;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Up on that august lap was yanked</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And thoroughly and soundly spanked,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Till Cupid saddened, sobered, sore,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Wished that his wings had sprouted lower.</div>
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-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dan Cupid then in rage and grief</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Straightway set out to find his mother,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who stitched upon her evening leaf,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">(She swore she didn’t have another,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Or, if she had, she still would swear</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She had none that was fit to wear.)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And so the naughty youngster found her</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">With leaves and sewing girls around her.</div>
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-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">When Venus heard her infant’s wail,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In apprehension she besought him</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To tell her all his angry tale;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then to her breast she, breathless, caught him.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And, as his tear-stained face she kissed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Upon an arrow scratched her wrist.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So in her veins in this strange fashion</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Was introduced the germ of passion.</div>
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-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Indignant at the godlet’s tale,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She hastened to protest to Zeus,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Her lovely cheek with anger pale,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She was prepared to raise the deuce.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But as Olympus’ mount drew near,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She spied Adonis chasing deer.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And in a moment from her head</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">All thoughts of wrath and Cupid fled.</div>
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-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Straightway she hitched her gentle team</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of doves, and left her carriage standing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For this fair youth to her doth seem</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A hero, comely and commanding&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Although in fact and eke in truth</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">He was a simple country youth;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And so it happened that the Queen</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Of Beauty found him shy and green</div>
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-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Now, Venus, veteran at the game</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of flirting, would not be denied;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">As goddesses can feel no shame,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She soon was anchored to his side;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Do what he would, he could not shake her,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Go where he would, he had to take her;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Until one morn upon the plain</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She found the fair Adonis slain.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">This story should a warning be</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To maidens bold who wish to woo,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For if you seek your lover, he</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Most certainly will not seek you;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">All men may love, but just the same</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">They would be hunters&mdash;not the game.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Adonis, so the story saith,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Was really simply boared to death!</div>
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-<hr class="r40" />
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="PROSERPINA">PROSERPINA.</h2>
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-<div class="blockquot">
-<p class="noindent">“<em>Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluk’d, she eat;<br />
-Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat<br />
-Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe<br />
-That all was lost.</em>”</p>
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-<p class="pad60pc">&mdash;Milton.</p>
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-    <div class="versey drop-capy">ON Aetna’s isle Dis Pluto drove</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">His devil-wagon one fine day,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And passing through fair Enna’s grove</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Beheld Proserpina at play;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">He asked, “Will you not take a ride?”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“You’re very kind,” the maid replied,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And stepped into his turn-out swell;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And that was how she went to hell.</div>
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-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">For Pluto, whipping up his team,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Sped on toward Tartarus in mirth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And when opposed by Cyane’s stream,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">He took a short-cut through the earth.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Nor paused, nor drew his rein before</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">He heard Cerberus’ welcome roar,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And sniffed the smell of singeing soul</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">By which he knew he’d reached his goal.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ceres, Proserpina’s mamma,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Was almost crazed with grief and fear;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">(As to Proserpina’s papa,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">His name I never chanced to hear),</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She cursed for all that she was worth</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The crops and fruits of Mother Earth;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“You’ll bear no fruit,” she told the Ground,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“Until my Prossie has been found!”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Jove, who beheld the farmer’s need,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And saw the season’s crops all fail,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Said, “This is Cereous, indeed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That fellow Dis should be in jail!”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“I think,” said Juno, “’twere as well&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">It does no good to give him hell;”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And so it might have been decreed</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But for one small pomegranate seed.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">In Hades Ceres’ daughter sweet</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Was offered luscious bread and jam,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But she was much too cross to eat</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And even scorned the deviled ham;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Until at last she made a slip</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And swallowed a pomegranate pip;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Now, they who eat in hell&mdash;alack!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To earth may never more come back.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Moral is&mdash;don’t take a chance</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Joy-riding with a strange chauffeur,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Remember this sad circumstance</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Or you will get in trouble sure.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">If you <em>must</em> go&mdash;don’t go alone,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The devil hates a chaperone.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So mind the pips and look alive&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Dis Pluto often goes to drive!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<hr class="r40" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="ANAXARETE">ANAXARETE.</h2>
-</div>
-
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="versey drop-capy1">IN Cyprus dwelt Anaxarete,</div>
-    <div class="versey indent4">A maiden famous for her beauty,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With disposition far from sweet,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Who looked on flirting as a duty.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">’Tis said she scarcely would despise</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">At slaves and such to roll her eyes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">’Till most the men of Cyprus were</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">In love, or half in love with her.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Young Iphis was a worthy lad</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And born of parents poor but proud;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He was a credit to his dad,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Until one day while in a crowd</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">He chanced a college chum to meet</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Out walking with Anaxarete;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And when she rolled her lovely eyes</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Poor Iphis gasped in glad surprise.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">One glance, and Iphis was her slave,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">All other interests he forgot;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Forgot to eat, forgot to shave,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And wrote in rhyme a deal of rot</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To prove his heart was at the feet</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Of stony-cold Anaxarete;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Who met his protests and his tears</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">With cutting jests and crushing sneers.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">For Ana, as do all coquettes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">So soon grew aweary of his wooing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And Iphis took to cigarettes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">But still she answered “Nothing doing!”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And added&mdash;insult ne’er forgotten!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She thought his poetry was rotten;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And finally to fix his place</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She slammed the door in Iphis’ face.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">When Iphis saw that all was past,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And knew that he could call no more,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He took a rope and made it fast</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And hanged himself before her door.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And, when his funeral passed her place,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She thought to mock his pallid face;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But Venus, leaning from her throne,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Had seen, and turned the maid to stone.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">At Salamis, her statue still</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Points to the Moral of this tale&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That any maid who flirts to kill</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Is really quite beyond the pale.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And as for lovers; let me say</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">If she is bored, just go away;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">No gentleman, and this I know,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Will hang about when he’s<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">de trop</i>!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<hr class="r40" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="PENELOPE">PENELOPE.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="blockquot">
-<p class="noindent">“<em>Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;<br />
-To err is human, to forgive, divine.</em>”</p>
-
-<p class="pad60pc">&mdash;Pope.</p>
-</div>
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-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="versey drop-capy2">PENELOPE, a Spartan maid,</div>
-    <div class="versey indent4">The brave Ulysses wooed and wed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She in a modest blush arrayed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">He with a crown upon his head.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Two hearts that beat as one&mdash;no tear</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Bedimmed their bliss for one whole year;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">At Ithaca they dwelt in peace&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Not Ithaca, New York&mdash;but Greece.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Alas! Scarce had been born their boy,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">An infant very fair and bright,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When came a horrid war in Troy</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And papa had to go and fight.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">He left Penelope in tears&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">He went and stayed for years and years;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And while away, I am afraid,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">He sometimes wooed another maid.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span>
-</div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">In many lands he dwelt as guest</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of ladies of exceeding beauty;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ulysses, it must be confessed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In flirting quite forgot his duty.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">He flirted here, he flirted there,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">In fact he flirted everywhere&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">With Calypso, Nausicaa, Circe&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And he a man of family&mdash;Mercy!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Penelope, dissolved in tears,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Bewailed her spouse&mdash;the faithless Turk!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And stood off suitors twenty years</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">By doing endless fancy work.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">By day she made her stitches right,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But pulled them out again by night,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Until her husband, tired of larks,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Came home and slew that bunch of sparks.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">The husband, even though he err</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And lead abroad a lively life,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dislikes, when he comes back to her,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To find that others woo his wife.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Ulysses lacked in morals&mdash;true,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But she had quite enough for two&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">May Eros grant a wife to me</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">As patient as Penelope!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<hr class="r40" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="SAPPHO">SAPPHO.</h2>
-</div>
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-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="versey drop-capy2">SAPPHO was pretty all agree,</div>
-    <div class="versey indent4">Some say that she was stately,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">You cannot prove it, though, by me&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">I haven’t seen her lately.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">In fact, I do not now recall</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">I ever saw the girl at all.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So we must take Dame Rumor’s word</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">That Sappho was, indeed, a bird.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Now, Sappho in her younger years,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Was wooed by men a-plenty,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And setting suitors by the ears</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Amused her much at twenty.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She swore she’d not, at twenty-five,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Accept the nicest man alive,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And laughed to scorn the ardent Greek</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Who sought to kiss her damask cheek.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">But Sappho finds as years roll on,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">As oft a maid discovers,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That when a maiden’s youth is gone,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Gone also are her lovers.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">No suitor hangs about her door</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To wait her coming as of yore;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And what is worse than all above&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Just at this stage she falls in love.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Just what she does, if tales are truth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">(Fie on that rascal Cupid!)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Is to select a verdant youth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A handsome boy, but stupid!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She tries her best to win his heart</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">With all her once unfailing art,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But finds&mdash;ah, Eros! think of that!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">That Phaon thinks her old and fat.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Poor Sappho keenly feels the shame</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of love quite unrequited,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And though she knows herself to blame,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She feels her life is blighted.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And so when some one tells her if</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She will jump off a handy cliff</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">’Twill cure her of her love and dumps&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She rushes out&mdash;ah! ah&mdash;she jumps!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ah, reader, let us pause right here</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To drop a tiny, briny tear;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Alas! Alack! Oh, woeful sight&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">It cured her of her love, all right!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Fair maidens, heed this circumstance&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Don’t jump off cliffs&mdash;jump at your chance!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="r40" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="SYRINX">SYRINX.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="blockquotx">
-<p class="noindent">“<em>Poor nymph&mdash;poor Pan&mdash;how he did weep to find<br />
-Naught but a lovely sighing of the wind<br />
-Along the reedy stream; a half-heard strain,<br />
-Full of sweet desolation, balmy pain.</em>”</p>
-
-<p class="pad60pc">&mdash;Keats.</p>
-</div>
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-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="versey drop-capy1">IN Greece there dwelt in days gone by</div>
-    <div class="versey indent4">A maiden huntress, passing fair,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Who lived beneath the open sky</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And dearly loved the open air.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Although it really seems a shame</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To call a lady such a name,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">This lovely nymph was called, methinks,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">S-y-r-i-n-x, Syrinx.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Syrinx, while following the Chase,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Was seen one day by ardent Pan,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A god of most repulsive face,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A sort of burlesque on a man.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">If we can trust what ancients wrote,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Poor Pan was really half a goat&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Not like the Peter Pan to-day</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The Misses Chase and Adams play.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">When Pan began swift to pursue,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The maiden in her terror fled,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">(I cannot blame her much, can you?)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And ran ’till she was almost dead;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But friendly spirits in a stream</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Had heard and understood her scream,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And they had changed her in a wink</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To reeds upon the river’s brink.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">The god, though thwarted in his scheme</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To win the nymph, was not dismayed.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He plucked the reeds beside the stream</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And from them a “Syrinx” he made.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The shepherd’s pipes&mdash;so came to man</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The music of the Pipes o’ Pan.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Moral? There is none; you see</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Pan was, as poets all agree,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A most <em>immoral</em> deity!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="r40" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="TITHONUS">TITHONUS.</h2>
-</div>
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-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="versey drop-capy">TITHONUS, royal prince of Troy,</div>
-    <div class="versey indent4">All mortal maidens’ beauty scorning,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Chose for his love, presumptuous boy!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Aurora, goddess of the morning.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To her he wrote his royal rhymes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">For her he saved his royal dimes;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So well, indeed, he played his part,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">He won at last the goddess’ heart.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Aurora, wise as gods must be,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Was well aware that all men perish,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And knowing this she bent the knee,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">(What won’t we do for those we cherish!)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And thus she prayed to Jove on high:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“Oh, <em>please</em> don’t let Tithonus die!”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And this, the whole of her endeavor&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">That Tithy, dear, might live forever.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Now, Jove, although a deity,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Was very fond of mortal ladies,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And more than once, he, even he,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Had grieved to see them go to Hades.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“I quite agree with you,” he said,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“Tithonus would be dull if dead.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So be content, I, even I,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Decree Tithonus shall not die!”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Aurora, full of love and joy,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Laughed out in Pluto’s face of gloom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And hastened off to tell her boy</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That she had saved him from the tomb.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But, ah, how foolish to forget</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">One other evil to be met!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">’Tis sad to say, but must be told,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She quite forgot he might grow old.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Grow old he did, as most men do,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Grew gray and bald and round of tummy;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Grew deaf, grew cross and crabbed, too;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Grew bent and wrinkled like a mummy.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“Oh, Gee! Oh, Fudge! My Sakes! Good Lands!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">What’s this I’ve got upon my hands?”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Aurora cried, nor gave a hang</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Who heard her use such vulgar slang.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Alas!” she cried, “is it decreed&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And it is even right and proper?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That I forever more should feed</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A foolish, mulish old grasshopper?”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Tithonus hopped&mdash;for, you must know</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">That what a goddess says is <em>so</em>!</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Tithonus, stricken but resigned,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Hopped out of sight and out of mind.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Moral is&mdash;that age and youth</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Have aye been illy yoked together,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For love cannot survive, in truth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A prolonged spell of wintry weather.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So, when you hear your lady sigh:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“Alas! My Love will <em>never</em> die!”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Just heed Aurora’s hint, I say,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And hope no more&mdash;but hop away!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="ARIADNE">ARIADNE.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="blockquot">
-<p class="noindent">“<em>Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,<br />
-And Jove but laughs at lover’s perjury.</em>”</p>
-
-<p class="pad60pc">&mdash;Dryden.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="versey drop-capy">THE Minotaur, a horrid beast</div>
-    <div class="versey indent4">Which made its food of maidens fair</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And handsome youths, to say the least</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Had given Athens quite a scare.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Since Athens sent each year to Crete</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">A batch of folks for him to eat;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">’Till on King Minos Athens soured,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">For no one likes to be devoured.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Just as the folks of Athens had</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Prepared to risk their all in war,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Young Theseus, to the King, his dad,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Proffered his services and swore</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">That he would go to Crete and slay</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The Minotaur without delay;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And so with helmet-box and grip</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">He started on the fateful trip.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Now, Minos had a daughter fair,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Who was humane as well as Cretan,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And all in all, she did not care</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To see the handsome stranger eaten.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So she resolved that she would aid</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Young Theseus in his escapade,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Although she knew her royal dad</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Would certainly be hopping mad.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Minotaur, King Minos kept</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Within a sort of mystic maze,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And in those corridors, unswept,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A man might wander, lost, for days.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And Ariadne’s scheme, in fine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Was just to take a ball of twine</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And let the youth unroll the thing</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And so be guided by the string.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">All went as planned&mdash;oh, lucky star!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The sword of Theseus soon was wet,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And slaughtered was the Minotaur;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The king had lost his gruesome pet.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The lovers fled the monarch’s wrath</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But even on the homeward path</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The hero, bored to hear her weep,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">On Noxas left her fast asleep.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Moral is&mdash;you should not string</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Young men, unless you know them well;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For love is an uncertain thing</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And strange young men, however swell,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">If loosely tied and quickly bored,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Will quit you of their own accord.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="r40" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Io">Io.</h2>
-</div>
-
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="versey drop-capy1">IO and Jove were holding hands</div>
-    <div class="versey indent4">One day beside a sylvan stream</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And drawing hearts upon the sands&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Epitome of Love’s young dream!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Fair Io murmured, “On my life,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Why took you Juno for your wife?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The ox-eyed Juno! In good sooth</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Peroxide would be nearer truth!”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Tut-tut!” said Jove, “you should not speak</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">So slightingly of my good spouse;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She has been busy all this week</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Up on Olympus cleaning house.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And while she sweeps, I’ve naught to do</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But stay here making love to you!”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“She would do well,” the maid replies,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“To sweep the dust from out her eyes.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Alas for Io! Juno heard</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her idle words within the hour;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Some gossip of a bee or bird</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Repeated them from flower to flower,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Until ’twas whispered by the leaves</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent4">At Juno’s threshold&mdash;“Jove deceives!”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“Deceived again?” she cried in rage;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To see what happened, turn the page.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Or, if the printer can find room</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To print another line on this,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I’ll state that Juno heard a boom</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of thunder&mdash;which is when gods kiss.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And hurried angrily to where</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She thought to find the erring pair;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But reaching there she saw, I vow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">No maiden, but a heifer cow!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">For Jove, grown wise in other years</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In which he got his just deserts,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Was ever pricking up his ears</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To hear the swish of Juno’s skirts.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So, when he heard her on his trail,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">He made his hat a milking pail</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And changed poor Io, trembling now,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Into the semblance of a cow.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">But Juno was not quite a fool</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And saw at once her husband’s trick,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And, though appearing calm and cool,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Resolved to make that heifer sick.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“A lovely cow!” cried she. “Divine!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">I cannot rest ’till it is mine!”</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Jove cleared his throat and smoothed his vest</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But had to grant his wife’s request.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Alas for Io! Juno sent</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A gad-fly which beset her sore,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And drove her&mdash;which was the intent&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">From sea to sea and shore to shore.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To Egypt and the Barbadoes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Perhaps to Iowa&mdash;who knows?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The gad-fly followed where she went</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And stung her to his heart’s content.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">And so it happens, even now,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Although she vainly tries to grab it,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The gad-fly stings the gentle cow&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">He keeps it up from force of habit.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="r40" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="DIDO">DIDO.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="blockquotx">
-<p class="noindent">“<em>Up, then, Melpomene! the mournfulest Muse of Nine,<br />
-Such cause of mourning never hadst afore;<br />
-Up, grislie ghostes! and up, my rufull rhyme!</em>”<br />
-</p>
-
-<p class="pad60pc">&mdash;Spenser.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="versey drop-capy3">“ON such a night,” as Shakespeare once remarked,</div>
-    <div class="versey indent4">On such a night as lovers love to spoon,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Aeneas in his cockleshell embarked</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And left poor Dido weeping ’neath the moon;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">A palm-leaf in her hand, as Shakespeare said,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The crown of ancient Carthage on her head;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">’Twas thus Aeneas jilted the fair dame</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And put the chivalry of Greece to shame.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Fair Dido, to go back a little way,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Had fled the vengeance of her brother’s ire,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who slew her wealthy husband one fine day</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And chased his widowed sister out of Tyre;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Pygmalion was the name he bore at court,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Though Dido always called him “Pyg” for short;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Methinks the greedy nature of the youth</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Made Dido’s nickname fit him well in truth.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Arriving, then, on Afric’s sunny shore</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With some few friends who followed in her train,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She built herself some houses and a store,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Laid out a street and called it Lover’s Lane.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And since the town was hers, none could gainsay</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Her right to royal rule and social sway;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And so it is quite easy to be seen</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">How, when Aeneas came, he found her queen.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Aeneas and some refugees from Troy</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Were wandering about uncharted seas;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Aeneas had a cold&mdash;unlucky boy!</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent2">(’Twould wring your heart to hear his mournful sneeze!)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">In fact, they all were troubled as to nose,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Clad as they were in lightest marching clothes;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So when they came at last to Dido’s land,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">They were a sick and sorry-looking band.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Not unacquainted with distress,” she said,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“I’ve learned to succor all the down and out;”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Straightway she had them all tucked into bed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And caused her heralds in the street to shout:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“Queen Dido seeks a sovereign cure for chills,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Bring mustard plasters, poultices and pills;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The victor she’ll reward and make his name</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">A synonym for fortune and for fame.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">As always, when incentive is supplied,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Some pharmacist got busy on the spot,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Made little pills with quinine stuffed inside;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She made him rich, but famous he is not.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">We take them now, but who is there can tell</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The doctor who first served mankind so well?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">But let us haste&mdash;this yarn, beyond all doubt,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Grows dull apace, and slow, and long-drawn-out.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">To cut it short; she loved him; he loved her;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">He stuck around; she made him quite at home;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The two were quite domestic I infer</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Until Aeneas took a boat for Rome.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Rome wasn’t there&mdash;but what cared he for that?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">’Most any town will do to dodge a flat;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Aeneas felt that he could love that spot,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Where’er it be&mdash;so be Dido was not.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Dido, deserted, built a funeral pyre,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">On which she mounted with a wicked knife;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She bade a servant set the thing afire,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And with the dagger put an end to life.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So perished Dido; died, oh died for love!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So Dido died, as I have said above,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Sweet Dido, loveliest lady of the land,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">On such a night&mdash;a palm-leaf in her hand!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Moral? This is not a moral tale.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">What do we learn from it? Well, I should say</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">We learn that merry widows sometimes fail,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And cutting didoes doesn’t always pay.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="r40" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="DAPHNE">DAPHNE.</h2>
-</div>
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-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="versey drop-capy2">FAIR Daphne was a modest miss,</div>
-    <div class="versey indent4">A convert of the “Kiss Not” fad,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who swore no man should know her kiss,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Unless it be her dear old dad.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">E’en as a tot it caused her grief</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To play at “Drop the handkerchief”;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She called each youthful suitor, “Brute!”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Who offered her a chaste salute.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">In vain her father bade her wed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In vain he urged, in vain entreated;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She only shook her pretty head,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And all his arguments defeated.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“Talk not of men,” she said. “To me,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Diana’s priestess I would be,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And range the woods, heart-free, foot-loose,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To kill the chipmunk and the moose.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ah, well!” he sighed (It is a shame,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And rather mars this graceful verse,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I cannot rhyme his beastly name),</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Ah, well! Perhaps you might do worse.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">I longed for grand-sons, but”&mdash;a sigh&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">“The cost of living sure is high;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">I’m tired of fish and long for liver!”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Her pa, Peneus, was a river.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">And so it happened, Daphne did</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Devote her days unto the Chase;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whenever she saw a man, she hid;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Nor would she show her pretty face</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">To any man except her father;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">A modest little maiden? Rather!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">So modest she&mdash;she would not flirt</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Her dainty little hunting skirt!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Though best-laid plans of mice and men</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">May go astray; no mouse, no man,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Can hope to bring the wit in play</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That e’en the dullest godling can.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">For gods beat human folks all hollow&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Especially the god Apollo;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Apollo, who was far from stupid,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Had heard of Daphne from Dan Cupid,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And he resolved that he would see</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">How true young Cupid’s tale might be.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">He laid in wait and spied the maid,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Who tripped along the woodland path,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In haste and somewhat disarrayed,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Intent upon her evening bath,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Not dreaming that a soul was near,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Until upon her startled ear</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">There broke a single love-lorn sigh,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Which warned her that the god was nigh.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then like a startled fawn she fled,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The grass scarce bending ’neath her feet,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Her hair out-streaming from her head,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her face as pale as any sheet.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And as she fled the god pursued,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">(A most ungentle act, and rude!)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And gained, and gained, and gained so fast,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">She thought her breath must fail at last!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Help! Help!” she cried. “Peneus, aid</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Your daughter&mdash;save, oh, save me now!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">So weary and so sore afraid!”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And in a moment on her brow</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Some tiny twigs began to grow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her feet took root&mdash;for, you must know,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Her father, by divine decree,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Transformed his daughter to a tree!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ah!” sighed Apollo, “what is this?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">My tree! You can’t escape me now!”</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Upon her trunk he pressed a kiss&mdash;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Poor Daphne blushed in every bough;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“You have,” said he, “a lovely limb;”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">(Say, honest, I’m ashamed of him!)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">How sad to see a perfect lady</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Become a character so shady!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Moral is&mdash;be careful how</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">You dress when you go out to swim;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Poor Daphne might be hunting now,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Instead of wearing trunks for him!</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<hr class="chap" />
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span></p>
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