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Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.

By. Walter Savage Landor

Plays

ALAS, how soon the hours are over

Counted us out to play the lover!

And how much narrower is the stage

Alloted us to play the sage!

But when we play the fool, how wide

The theatre expands! beside,

How long the audience sit before us:

How many prompters, what a chorus!