THE BOOK OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN-ELEVEN 193

 

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Being an effort on the part of an humble member of the class to predict our future. The
said prophet is not a poet by instinct, but she has carefully measured up the feet, the metre, and
inches of her lines to correspond with a poem called “In Tuscuny”, which is by a real poet;
with this authority she begins.

Pinkie led so well our singing,

And had a voice so sweetly ringing,
That now she leads the songs sonorous
Of the Metropolitan Opera chorus.

Janney, with her vast array of knowledge
Of Italian learned at college,

Entrapped a gay Venetian count,

And writes her married bliss is paramount.