Recollection[1]
O thou Fair as the sunrise on deep sea's green surge,
While the whitecaps seem dancing all around!
Fair as sunset from mountain's sheer precipice's verge,
Seen o'er maze of high ridges snowbound!
Even Fairer than the rose, of all flowers the fairest;
Beyond Vatican's Apollo Belvedere;
Bud McDonald, youth's soulmate, of beauty the rarest,
Adolescent wert thou without peer!
First, Beau Brummel wert thou, so fussy about clothes,
O immaculate Buddie McDee !
Dirt and slovenness cat, never more than thou, loaths;
Must be brushed every hour from dust free;
Every lock of thine hair with worried care laid in place;
As a girl didst thou prink—I can vow!
But of all the young bloods of Rialto's fast race,
Not one sweller was costumed than thou!
Beheld one the shining patent leather of thy shoe,
And both hands decorated with rings;
Marked thy wiles through which dude hoi polloi's favor doth woo,
One would say : "All from effeminacy springs!"
"Not a bit!" I must answer. For Mack, Sport as well,
Was a crack shot with pistol and ball ;
How he hunted, coldblooded, dumb beasts he did tell ;
Furry creatures clubbed dead ; cursed them all !
- ↑ For prose description of the personality that I have here attempted to depict poetically, see page 114 following.
