AT A MOVIE THEATRE
How well he spoke who coined the phrase
The picture palace! Aye, in sooth
Are crowned with kingliness of youth.
Where toes are trod and strained eyes smart,
The old heroics of the heart.
And Love is sweet and always true,
Hands clasp—as they were meant to do.
Our souls, pro tem, are purged and free:
The crumbling tumult of the sea.
Well balanced at a dozen banks;
A brown-eyed life, nor stay for thanks!
Life is not all it might have been,
Of shadow, cast upon a screen!