| Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922. | | | | We Two Learned the Lesson Together | | By Rudyard Kipling |
| | | WE two learned the lesson together, | |
| The oldest of all, yet so new | |
| To myself, and I’m wondering whether | |
| It was utterly novel to you? | |
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| The pages—you seemed to have known them, | 5 |
| The pictures that changed ’neath our eyes; | |
| Alas! by what hand were you shown them, | |
| That I find you so womanly wise? | |
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| Is it strange that my hand on your shoulder | |
| In the dusk of the day should be placed? | 10 |
| Did you say to yourself, “Were he older | |
| His arm had encircled my waist?” | |
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| If it be so, so be it, fair teacher; | |
| I sit at your feet and am wise, | |
| For each page of the book is a feature, | 15 |
| And the light of the reading, your eyes. | |
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| We have met, and the meeting is over; | |
| We must part, and the parting is now; | |
| We have played out the game—I, boy-lover, | |
| In earnest, and you, dearest, how? | 20 | | | |
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