A Learned Lady

"Had I your eyes," pert girls have said,
"I'd use them." And they would.
For men have never tempted me.
They said, "She's good. She's good."

I envied those who danced and kissed.
And even those who fell.
They learned, I knew, things I had missed.
While I earned my D. L. L.

I planned to burn one candle up,
To fling one merry dance.
I did. And every male I've met
Has given me a chance.

Enclosed in gilt parenthesis
Are words of double glow.
Have scales dropped from my eyes, think you?
Or do they know I know?

^__Margaret E. Haughawout.

Sheep's Clothing
Margaret E. Haughawout
Page 55
(Pittsburg, Kansas: __. 1929)