In Other Words/As John Howard Payne Said
As John Howard Payne said—
There’s a popular impression tantamount to an obsession, We have read of it in article and pome,That vacationers returning undergo a lot of yearningTo be home.
We have seen a lot of verses on the emptiness of purses Caused by going to the mountain or the shore,How the dolce far niente thing is often more than plenty,And a bore.
Wheeze and whimsy, fact and fable on the poorness of the table, Gag and giggle on the hardness of the bed—Of the myriad deprivations to the goers on vacationsWe have read.
As to all that sort of patter touching on vacation matter, We arise in modest wise to interjectThat the folks who knock the rural thing—or things, to make it plural—Are correct.