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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE HURRY OF THIS TIME, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: With slower pen men used to write
Last Line: With slower pen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Time; Writing & Writers
First Line: With slower pen men used to write
Last Line: With slower pen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Time; Writing & Writers
(TO F. G.)
WITH slower pen men used to write,
Of old, when 'letters' were 'polite';
In ANNA'S, or in GEORGE'S days,
They could afford to turn a phrase,
Or trim a straggling theme aright.
They knew not steam; electric light
Not yet had dazed their calmer sight; --
They meted out both blame and praise
With slower pen.
Too swiftly now the Hours take flight!
What's read at morn is dead at night:
Scant space have we for Art's delays,
Whose breathless thought so briefly stays,
We may not work -- ah! would we might! --
With slower pen.
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