Social Commentaries
Speculation
From Songs of a Savoyard (1920 Macmillan Bab Ballads edition)
Comes a train of little ladies
From scholastic trammels free,
Each a little bit afraid is,
Wondering what the world can be!
Is it but a world of trouble—
Sadness set to song?
Is its beauty but a bubble
Bound to break ere long?
Are its palaces and pleasures
Fantasies that fade?
And the glory of its treasures
Shadow of a shade?
Schoolgirls we, eighteen and under,
From scholastic trammels free,
And we wonder—how we wonder!—
What on earth the world can be!
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MLA
Gilbert, W. S. “Speculation.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gilbert/38/.
Chicago
Gilbert, W. S. “Speculation.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gilbert/38/.
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