THE style of man I’ d like to be,
If I could have my way,
Would be a sort of pot-pourri
Of Poe and Thackeray;
Of Horace, Edison, and Lamb;
Of Keats and Washington,
Gérôme and blest Omar Khayyám,
And R. L. Stevenson;
Of Kipling and the Bard of Thrums,
And Bonaparte the great —
If I were these, I’ d snap my thumbs
Derisively at Fate.