Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1920 — TIME TO BE WISE [ARTICLE]

TIME TO BE WISE

Yea; I write verses now and then. But blunt and flaccid is my pen. No longer talked of by young men As ratlWr clever; In the last quarter are my eyes. You see it in' their form and slm; Is it not time then to be wise? Or now or never. Fairest that ever sprang from Eve! When Time allows the short reprieve. Just look at me! would you believe •Twas once a lover T I cannot clear the flve-bar gate; But, trying first its timber’s state. Climb stiffly up, take breath, and. wait To trundle over. Through gallopade I cannot swing The entangling blooms of Beauty’s spring; I cannot say the .tender thing, Be’t true or false,— And am be<innlngr to opine Those girls are only half divine Whose waists you wicked boys entwine In giddy waits. I fear that arm above that shoulder; I wish them wlsef, graver, older, Sedater, and no harm If colder. And panting less. Ah! people were not half so wild In former days when starchly mild. Upon her high-heeled Essex smiled . The brave Queen Besa —Walter Savage Lander.