Christopher Morley

“ BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
[Children, leprechauns, women beutifulle and yonge, These be forrainers alle.
—Sir Eustace Peachtree]
AYE, for I knew you foreign! Plain to me
The anxiety that trembled in your gaze—
Your brave but heavy-burning secrecy
Compelled by our more coarse and clumsy ways,
O lovely, lovely! Terror in the eyes,
Poor eagerness to do what men expect:
Willing to stifle your own gay surprise
And pass unquestionable, trim, correct ”