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65 HEN the wine has done its rosy deed (As the reputable English poet said) I enjoy to study in tranquillity The lovable absurdities of men. And then my familiarity with literatures Besteads me well, Affording me always a scholarly explanation For conduct seemingly eccentric.

Once, I remember, After an evening in which Chancellor Mu Kow and myself Had repeatedly toasted the loveliness of the moon, Condoling her solitude In the wide pale sky, I lay in a perfection of comfortable thought In a gently revolving cabbage field. But my wife s parents Heading the search party Discovered me there, and cried lamentation and oxytones.