Deportmental ditties : and other verses . Alas ! the world has changed to-day ! How modernised both wooed and wooer !Chloe is now a coryphee, Strephon a wealthy brewer !She smiles on picture-postcards sweetly,While he signs cheques extremely Or else he is a peer, unblestWith dollars, and not too romantic, And she, from somewhere in the West,An heiress Transatlantic. Gold to his happiness is vital, She feels the same about a title. 24 The Proposal I [e docs not Inn- ;i ooach-and-fourTo bear him to his Ladys dwellirj A motor lands him at her door,Strident and evil-smelling; Disguised in
Deportmental ditties : and other verses . Alas ! the world has changed to-day ! How modernised both wooed and wooer !Chloe is now a coryphee, Strephon a wealthy brewer !She smiles on picture-postcards sweetly,While he signs cheques extremely Or else he is a peer, unblestWith dollars, and not too romantic, And she, from somewhere in the West,An heiress Transatlantic. Gold to his happiness is vital, She feels the same about a title. 24 The Proposal I [e docs not Inn- ;i ooach-and-fourTo bear him to his Ladys dwellirj A motor lands him at her door,Strident and evil-smelling; Disguised in ooonskins like bis shove] He seems more Golliwog than lover I When, thus unsuitably arrayed,He finds his fair inamorata Playing (with pianolas aid)A Hackenschmidt sonata— Cacophony enough to deafen An even more phlegmatic Strephon— He does not fall upon his knees, Nor grovel on the ground before her- Gymnastical displays like these,He knows, would only bore her— But speaks in accents far from tender, Toasting his coat-tails at the fender. Oh, by the way, you hear him say, Chloe—before I quite forget it— I wish youd marry me some day;Really you wont regret it. How would next Friday fortnight suit you? And—may I (what they call) sa
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