Classic Poem

Sweet Alice

Oh, have you observed your sweet Alice, Ben Bolt —
Sweet Alice with hair now so titian?
She screams with delight when you play her some jazz,
And to toddle all night is her ambition.
She swims and she rides and she motors, Ben Bolt;
She smokes, and she wallops the ball;
And to-night when I asked her about you, Ben Bolt,
Why, she didn't remember you at all —
When I asked her to-night how about you, Ben Bolt,
Why, she failed to recall you at all.

*****

Jenny

Jenny kiss'd 'em when they met —
Otto, Cedric, Aleck, Eddie,
Bennie, Jimmy, Allen, Chet,
Eustace, Henry, Bert, and Freddie.
I'm a novice at the game;
I don't understand the system
As that polyandrous dame,
Jenny, kissed 'em.

Sweet Alice

Oh, have you observed your sweet Alice, Ben Bolt —
Sweet Alice with hair now so titian?
She screams with delight when you play her some jazz,
And to toddle all night is her ambition.
She swims and she rides and she motors, Ben Bolt;
She smokes, and she wallops the ball;
And to-night when I asked her about you, Ben Bolt,
Why, she didn't remember you at all —
When I asked her to-night how about you, Ben Bolt,
Why, she failed to recall you at all.

*****

Jenny

Jenny kiss'd 'em when they met —
Otto, Cedric, Aleck, Eddie,
Bennie, Jimmy, Allen, Chet,
Eustace, Henry, Bert, and Freddie.
I'm a novice at the game;
I don't understand the system
As that polyandrous dame,
Jenny, kissed 'em.