TOM O'ROUGHLEY
 
 "THOUGH logic-choppers rule the town,
 And every man and maid and boy
 Has marked a distant object down,
 An aimless joy is a pure joy,'
 Or so did Tom O'Roughley say
 That saw the surges running by.
 "And wisdom is a butterfly
 And not a gloomy bird of prey.
 "If little planned is little sinned
 But little need the grave distress.
 What's dying but a second wind?
 How but in zig-zag wantonness
 Could trumpeter Michael be so brave?'
 Or something of that sort he said,
 "And if my dearest friend were dead
 I'd dance a measure on his grave.'