INTIMACY

n : A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. Two Seidlitz powders, one in blue And one in white, together drew, And having each a pleasant sense Of t’other powder’s excellence, Forsook their jackets for the snug Enjoyment of a common mug. So close their intimacy grew One paper would have held the two. To confidences straight they fell, Le anxious each to hear than tell; Then each remorsefully confe ed To all the virtues he po e ed, Acknowledging he had them in So high degree it was a sin. The more they said, the more they felt Their spirits with emotion melt, Till tears of sentiment expre ed Their feelings. Then they effervesced! | | So Nature executes her feats Of wrath on friends and sympathetes The good old rule who won’t apply, That you are you and I am I. 177