ODE TO A LONDON FOG

ROLL on, thick haze, roll on!

Through each familiar way

Roll on!

What though I must go out to-day?

What though my lungs are rather queer?

What though asthmatic ills I fear?

What though my wheeziness is clear?

Never you mind!

Roll on!

Roll on, thick haze, roll on!

Through street and square and lane

Roll on!

It's true I cough and cough again;

It's true I gasp and puff and blow;

It's true my trip may lay me low—

But that's not your affair, you know.

Never you mind!

Roll on!

Anonymous.