Happy Days

John Cecil Clay, Oliver Herford

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Title: Happy Days

Author: Oliver Herford  John Cecil Clay

Release Date: November 25, 2007 [EBook #23614]

Language: English

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To Stern Critics

Here’s to stern Critics!

May they some day learn

The forward lookout’s

Better than the stern!

 

 

 

Here’s to her shadow! May it mark the hours Upon the sundial of her life— in flowers!

HAPPY DAYS

BY

OLIVER HERFORD

AND

JOHN CECIL CLAY

 

 

NEW YORK

MITCHELL KENNERLEY

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY MITCHELL KENNERLEY

THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A

CONTENTS

T O S TERN C RITICS T O H ER S HADOW T O F ASHION T O   THE T YPEWRITER T HE F LOOR T O M USIC T O   THE P UBLISHER H ERE ’ S L OOKING T HE D OVE   OF P EACE T O   THE C LOCK T O H OPE T O L IBERTY S TAIRS : A T OAST T O L ADY N ICOTINE O H , E DITOR , E DITOR ! T O   THE C REDITOR

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T O N EPTUNE

T O   THE W AITER

T O T EMPTATION

T O   THE M AID   WITH F ANCY F REE

T O O UR S WEETHEARTS

T O O UR R EADERS

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FASHION! Lovely Dame!

Pledge in sparkling wine!

Let us add her name

To the Muses’ nine!

THOUGHthe lovely Nin

All should pass away

Why should Woman pine,

If but Fashion stay?

THO’the Muses’ lore

Molder on the shelf,

Still may She adore

In Fashion’s glass—Herself.

To

The Typewriter

Here’s to the Typewriter!

Health to her type!

Whether blond or brunette

Or budding or ripe.

If she be the right type

Be she buxom or slight,

When she doesn’t type wrong

She is sure to typewrite.

THE FLOOR

Here’s to the floor,

Our best friend of all,

Who sticks to us close

In the time of our fall.

When benches are fickle

And tables betray

And rugs are revolving,

He meets us half-way.

Our stay and support,

When we can’t stand alone,

With the floor for a backer,

We’ll never be thrown.

Here’s to our friend,

In life’s every stage!

Dry nurse of infancy,

Wet nurse of age!

A healthto our floor!

Supporter and stay;

Though he often be full,

May he never give way!

To

Music

Here’s to Music,

Joy of joys!

One man’s music’s

Another man’s noise.

 

 

TO THEheisblPu!knirD—!r

Let his virtue be shown

In theGood Worksof others

If not in his own.

T

THE PUBLISHER

Here’slooking

at you, dear!

though I should pour