Social Commentaries
VII
From Time's Laughingstocks, and Other Verses
Social Commentaries
We rushed to him and caught him round, and lifted him, and brought him
round,
When, hearing something wrong had happened, oped the window she:
“Has one of you fallen ill?” she asked, “by these night labours
overtasked?”
None answered. That she’d done poor John a cruel turn felt we.
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