Walter Savage Landor. Plays. Fuess and Stearns, comps. 1922. The Little Book of Society Verse

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

Plays

By Walter Savage Landor


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	5
The theatre expands! beside,
How long the audience sit before us:
How many prompters, what a chorus!