Rondeau With a Rumble
A rumble seat is not too wide;
(A premise which we've often tried)
On nights when ivory moonlight showed
A tree-lined stretch of asphalt road,
It was a pleasant place to ride.
At public parties we have shied,
Convention held us firmly tied.
It was not so when once we rode A rumble seat.
When Law and Order boast with pride
That all the country has been dried;
When we are under that strict code
'Neath which our forefathers abode,
All right: but leave us-both-inside A rumble seat.
Rumbling is a major sport, if there ever was one. We would, for example, and probably should, before the evening was over, give a considerable sum to go out and rumble for a little while now. It has manifold attributes among which is overemphasis, and its only drawback, so far as we can see, is the possibility of a long cool walk to Cambridge. But tonight, instead of rumbling along, starting quiet towns, we are staying in and rumbling typewriter keys. And, as some one has said, it isn't the heat, it's the humility.
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