Poems with rhymes of spruce

Some of them shabby, some of them spruce,
Savagely clamorous all,
Hurling endearments, advice or abuse,

Strange man! how odd to see you, smug and spruce,
There at Chicago, burrowed in a Chair,
Not made to measure and a deal too loose,

But rather to take truce!
How often have I seen you at a bier,
And there look fresh and spruce!

They are never very shabby, they are never very spruce --
Going cheerfully and carelessly and smoothly to the deuce.

This simpering dandy, so sleek and spruce;
This languorous lily in garments loose;

Pine, fur, and spruce
In the snow roams a moos

Pine, fur, and spruce
In the snow roams a moos