(Parody is a genre frowned upon by your professors <br />of literature... And yet it is a gentle art- <br />'The Point of View' in May _Scribner's_.) <br /> <br />A sweet disorder in the verse <br /> That never looks behind <br />Shall profit not who steals my purse, <br /> Let joy be unconfined! <br /> <br />How vainly men themselves amaze! <br /> The stars began to blink, <br />An art that there were few to praise, <br /> Nor any dropp to drink. <br /> <br />O sleep, it is a blessed thing <br /> Which I must ne'er enjoy! <br />There never was a fairer spring <br /> Than when I was a boy. <br /> <br />One fond embrace and then we part! <br /> Good-by, my lover, good-by! <br />And yet it is a gentle art, <br /> Which nobody can deny.<br /><br />Franklin P. Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/and-yet-it-is-a-gentle-art/
