Ballade of Ancient Acts AFTER HENLEY Where are the wheezes they essayed And where the smiles they made to flow? Where's Caron's seltzer siphon laid, A squirt from which laid Herbert low? Where's Charlie Case's comic woe And Georgie Cohan's nasal drawl? The afterpiece? The olio? Into the night go one and all. Where are the japeries, fresh or frayed, That Fields and Lewis used to throw? Where is the horn that Shepherd played? The slide trombone that Wood would blow? Amelia Glover's l. f. toe? The Rays and their domestic brawl? Bert Williams with "Oh, I Don't Know?" Into the night go one and all. Where's Lizzie Raymond, peppy jade? The braggart Lew, the simple Joe? And where the Irish servant maid That Jimmie Russell used to show? Charles Sweet, who tore the paper snow? Ben Harney's where? And Artie Hall? Nash Walker, Darktown's grandest beau? Into the night go one and all. L'ENVOI Prince, though our children laugh "Ho! Ho!" At us who gleefully would fall For acts that played the Long Ago, Into the night go one and all.