Strategic Retreat

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Strategic Retreat</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Humbly, darling, I mention this:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Before we ever had kissed a kiss,</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Before we ever had even met</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I got along, in a way, my pet.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I grew through childhood, I went</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Through school,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And wasn't exactly a perfect fool.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I even managed as I do now,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>To earn a salary check somehow.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Modestly, dearest these facts I cite</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>To show my judgment at times was right,</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>That now and then ere I wedded you,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>My bean worked wisely a time or two.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>And now that we're married one might expect </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>That once in a while I'd be correct.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>All right! All right! I won't</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Prolong</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The controversy-again I'm wrong!</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in:  </I><A HREF="the_saturday_evening_post.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Saturday Evening Post"><U><I>The Saturday Evening Post </I></U></A><I>magazine - March 29, 1930</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>