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font-size:1.2em; font-weight:bold;'>The Project Gutenberg eBook of Gay gods and merry mortals, by Robert J. Shores</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online -at <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Gay gods and merry mortals</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>some excursions in verse</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Robert J. Shores</div> - -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0'>Release Date: December 29, 2020 [eBook #64170]</div> - -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> - -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Charlene Taylor, Susan Carr and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em;margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAY GODS AND MERRY MORTALS ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp47" id="cover" style="max-width: 62.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap pg-brk" /> - -<h1 class="p8 pb8">GAY GODS<br /> -<em>and</em><br /> -MERRY MORTALS</h1> - -<hr class="chap pg-brk" /> - -<p class="pfs200 p2">GAY GODS AND<br /> -MERRY MORTALS</p> - -<hr class="doub" /> - -<p class="pfs120 p4">SOME EXCURSIONS IN VERSE<br /> - -<span class="fs120b">BY ROBERT J. SHORES</span></p> - -<hr class="sol" /> - -<div class="figcenter illowp62" id="colophon" style="max-width: 5.1875em;"> - <img class="w100 p4 pb4" src="images/colophon.jpg" alt="Colophon" /> -</div> - -<hr class="doub" /> - -<p class="pfs90">BROADWAY PUBLISHING CO.<br /> -<span class="fs80 smcap bold">NEW YORK</span><br /> -<span class="fs80 bold">1910</span></p> - -<hr class="chap pg-brk" /> - -<hr class="doub2 p8" /> - -<p class="pfs90">COPYRIGHT, 1910,<br /> -BY<br /> -ROBERT J. SHORES</p> - -<hr class="doub2 pb8" /> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="TITLES_AND_PAGES">TITLES AND PAGES</h2> -</div> - - -<table class="autotable" width="60%" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Proem</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Actæon</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Adonis</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Proserpina</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Anaxarete</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Penelope</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Sappho</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Syrinx</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Tithonus</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Ariadne</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Io</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Dido</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Daphne</td> -<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[Pg 7]</span></p> - -<p class="pfs135 p2 pb2">Gay Gods and Merry Mortals</p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="PROEM">PROEM.</h2> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <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> - </div> - <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—well, slightly expurgated.</em></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="r40" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ACTAEON">ACTÆON.</h2> -</div> - -<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> - -<p class="pad60pc">—Thomson.</p> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <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> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <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> -</div> - <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> - </div> - <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> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="r40" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ADONIS">ADONIS.</h2> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <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> - </div> - <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> - </div> - <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> - </div> - <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> - </div> - <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—</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> - </div> - <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—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> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="r40" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="PROSERPINA">PROSERPINA.</h2> -</div> - -<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> - -<p class="pad60pc">—Milton.</p> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <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> - </div> - <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—</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—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—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—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—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Dis Pluto often goes to drive!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="r40" /> - -<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—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—</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> - -<hr class="r40" /> - -<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">—Pope.</p> -</div> - - -<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—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—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Not Ithaca, New York—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—</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—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">With Calypso, Nausicaa, Circe—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And he a man of family—Mercy!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Penelope, dissolved in tears,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Bewailed her spouse—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—true,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">But she had quite enough for two—</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> - -<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> - - -<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—</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—</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—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—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">She rushes out—ah! ah—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—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">It cured her of her love, all right!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Fair maidens, heed this circumstance—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Don’t jump off cliffs—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—poor Pan—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">—Keats.</p> -</div> - - -<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—</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—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> - - -<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—</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—</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—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—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—but hop away!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="r40" /> - -<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">—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—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—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—</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—“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—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—which was the intent—</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—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—</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">—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—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—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—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—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—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> - - -<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”—a sigh—</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—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—</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—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—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—</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—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> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowe4_6875" id="endpage-1"> - <img class="w100 p2" src="images/endpage-1.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">HERE ENDETH</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowe4_6875" id="endpage-1b"> - <img class="w100" src="images/endpage-1.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">THIS LITTLE BOOK</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowe7_5" id="endpage-3"> - <img class="w100" src="images/endpage-3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">OF</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowe7_5" id="endpage-3c"> - <img class="w100" src="images/endpage-3.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">PAGAN POEMS</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowe4_6875" id="endpage-1c"> - <img class="w100" src="images/endpage-1.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div style='display:block;margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAY GODS AND MERRY MORTALS ***</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0;'>This file should be named 64170-h.htm or 64170-h.zip</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0;'>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in https://www.gutenberg.org/6/4/1/7/64170/</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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