* TO ANTHEA’ S BOSOM *

When that I went, a little lad, to school —

One half a cherub and one half a fool —

The weary pedant dinned upon my ears

That all the world is but two hemispheres.

Maybe I doubted then, for I was born

To laugh the wisdom of the wise to scorn;

But now, indeed, most surely it appears

That all the world is but two hemispheres.