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Coterie Volume 1 Issue: 3 December 1919 Page: 19

HAROLD MONRO

OCCASIONAL VISITOR “IF she’s your guest, and staying in your house, You surely know her ways. Does she not ever tell you how she means To pass her days?” “No … Never tells me. She is here sometimes, A week, a month, a year: I never know when she will come or go, Appear, or disappear.” “You’d better lift your senses for a while, Learn to forget about her. If Beauty will not live with you, then you Must live without her.” A CAUTIONARY RHYME FOR PARENTS “A CURIOUS thing,” said Mrs. Lack, “However many times I whack That girl of mine, she still complains Whenever she has growing pains!” The girl, like any other child, Looked hurt, but in her heart she smiled, As, after each repeated smack She cursed the ancient name of Lack. She grew, as every child is wont, And learnt the splendid law of Don't, And now, not very strange to say, She beats her mother every day.