| Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922. | | | | What She Said about It | | By Charles Henry Webb |
| | | LYRICS to Ines and Jane, | |
| Dolores and Ethel and May; | |
| Señoritas distant as Spain, | |
| And damsels just over the way! | |
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| It is not that I’m jealous, not that, | 5 |
| Of either Dolores and Jane, | |
| Of some girl in an opposite flat, | |
| Or in one of his castles in Spain. | |
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| But it is that salable prose | |
| Put aside for this profitless strain, | 10 |
| I sit the day darning his hose— | |
| And he sings of Dolores and Jane. | |
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| Though the winged-horse must caracole free— | |
| With the pretty, when “spurning the plain,” | |
| Should the team-work fall wholly on me | 15 |
| While he soars with Dolores and Jane? | |
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| I am neither Dolores nor Jane, | |
| But to lighten a little my life | |
| Might the poet not spare me a strain— | |
| Although I am only his wife! | 20 | | | |
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