18 AUGUST 1900, Page 16

STRATO'S " KISS."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sfn,—Let me offer you a version of Strato's " Kiss " which is at any rate much closer and more accurate than "A. P. G.'s."

AT eventide, when friends must say farewe'l,

My Mceris kissed me—was it dream or Booth ? Right clear I know all else that then befell, Her words, her questions, are the very truth. The doubt is, did she kiss me? On the sod Why walk I, if she kissed, that am a god ?