<h2><SPAN name="poem16"></SPAN>A MAN’S IDEAL</h2>
<p class="poetry">A lovely little keeper of the home,<br/>
Absorbed in menu books, yet erudite<br/>
When I need counsel; quick at repartee<br/>
And slow to anger. Modest as a flower,<br/>
Yet scintillant and radiant as a star.<br/>
Unmercenary in her mould of mind,<br/>
While opulent and dainty in her tastes.<br/>
A nature generous and free, albeit<br/>
The incarnation of economy.<br/>
She must be chaste as proud Diana was,<br/>
Yet warm as Venus. To all others cold<br/>
As some white glacier glittering in the sun;<br/>
To me as ardent as the sensuous rose<br/>
That yields its sweetness to the burrowing bee<br/>
All ignorant of evil in the world,<br/>
And innocent as any cloistered nun,<br/>
Yet wise as Phryne in the arts of love<br/>
When I come thirsting to her nectared lips.<br/>
Good as the best, and tempting as the worst,<br/>
A saint, a siren, and a paradox.</p>
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