16 JUNE 1933, Page 16

Poetry

A Warning MAID, would you keep your heart

Smooth as unprinted snow ?

Are you afraid to know The turmoil and the smart, The shocks and hazards of The long campaign of love ?

Then loiter if you will With Corin in the lane ; Dance with him on the green, Or picnic on the hill : Such pranks need leave no less Your spirit's singleness.

But share with him no toil, Art, enterprise or trade ; Labour not by his side At bench, loom, desk or soil : For wit nor will can check That aphrodisiac, Nor true heart long withstand Shared craft of brain or hand.

JAN STRUT] ER .