Lines on receiving the Dial Award

In the common mind a corked bottle,
that Senate's egg, today the prohibition
we all feel has been a little lifted

The sick carpenter rished up another bottle
from his cellar
for me last week, an old ginilask -

What a beauty ! a fat quartilask of
greenish glass, <u>The Father of His Country</u>
embossed upon one side of it
in glass letters capping the green profile
and on the other

<u>A Little more Grape Captain Bragg</u>

A noteworthy antithesis, that, to petty
thievery on a large scale ; generous ,
out of the sand, good to hold and to see -

It approaches poetry and my delight
at having been even for a moment shored
against a degradation
ticked off daily round me like the newspapers

An old , empty bottle in my hand
I go through the motions of drinking ,
drinking to The Dial and its courtesy

December 3, 1926