Life, 1921-09-15 · page 5 of 34
Life — September 15, 1921 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct elements: **Top: "Life" Lyric by Dorothy Parker** - A romantic poem about nature's interdependence, ending with the speaker's devotion to an unnamed person ("how well I get on without you"). **Bottom: Illustration and Caption** - A sketch showing two people (appears to be a man and woman) sitting outdoors with others in background, titled "Tennis Is a Good Game After All." The caption explains that Miss Jones's brothers (Tom, Dick, and Harold) persuaded a tennis champion named Mr. Chase to play doubles with them. The page appears to be a standard Life magazine feature mixing poetry with a lighthearted social illustration—likely about courtship or leisure activities among upper-class Americans. No specific political satire is evident. The humor seems gentle and domestic rather than topical.
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By Dorothy Parker If the blossoms refused their pale honey, the bees Must in idleness hunger and pine; While the moss cannot live, when it’s torn from the trees, Nor the waxen-globed mistletoe twine. Were it not for the sunshine, the birds wouldn't sing, And the heavens would never be blue. But of all Nature’s works, the most wonderful thing Is how well I get on without you. OW the arrogant iris would wither and fade If the soft summer dew never fell, And the timid arbutus that hides in the shade \Vould no longer make fragrant the dell! All the silver-flecked fishes would languish and dic it not for the foam-spangled streams ; brooks could not flow, without rain from the sky; Nor a poet get on without dreams. Litt! Tennis Is a Good Game After All Miss Jones's brothers, Tom, Dick and Harold, consider themselves exceptionally fortunate in persuading Mr. Chase, that well-known tennis champion, to come over for some doubles comicbooks.com