What I Have Come For

I have come with my verses - I think I may claim     It is not the first time I have tried on the same.     They were puckered in rhyme, they were wrinkled in wit;     But your hearts were so large that they made them a fit.     I have come - not to tease you with more of my rhyme,     But to feel as I did in the blessed old time;     I want to hear him with the Brobdingnag laugh -     We count him at least as three men and a half.     I have come to meet judges so wise and so grand     That I shake in my shoes while they're shaking my hand;     And the prince among merchants who put back the crown     When they tried to enthrone him the King of the Town.     I have come to see George - Yes, I think there are four,     If they all were like these I could wish there were more.     I have come to see one whom we used to call "Jim,"     I want to see - oh, don't I want to see him?     I have come to grow young - on my word I declare     I have thought I detected a change in my hair!     One hour with "The Boys" will restore it to brown -     And a wrinkle or two I expect to rub down.     Yes, that's what I've come for, as all of us come;     When I meet the dear Boys I could wish I were dumb.     You asked me, you know, but it's spoiling the fun;     I have told what I came for; my ditty is done.