EXQUISITE wines and comestibles,

Billiard, ÉcartÉ, and chess tables;

Luminous books (not voluminous)

To read under beech-trees cacuminous;

One friend, who is fond of a distich,

And doesn’t get too syllogistic;

A valet, who knows the complete art

Of service—a maiden, his sweetheart:

Give me these, in some rural pavilion,

And I’ll envy no Rothschild his million.