TOO LATE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3084, 23 April 1913, Page 62

TO O LATE.

She said, “ The play seems tiresome,” And paused for a reply. I said, ' No time hangs heavy If you are only by ” That is, I said it later: I couldn’t think of it then, I was ready for her -another time; But she never said it again, “ The good, the true, the beautiful,” She said, “ I dearly prize.” “ And they are always with you,” I said, with beaming eyes— That is, I should have said it If I hadn’t been too slow. As it was I thought of it Only an hour or two ago. “May I sit by you?” asked Phyllis. Quoth I, “ The pleasure’s mine.” I said it after she got out Two stations down the line. Send me, benignant heaven, Some speed of wit, I pray, That I may think of fit rejdies L’pon the self-same day. —Shamrock,