WITH KIND REGARDS.
"With kind regards"—'tis good to see your writing
Even on meagre correspondence-cards,
But would more matter you had been inditing
With kind regards!
Below you add that you are "mine sincerely,"
I wonder if in those two words you wrote
A sweet confession that you care—or merely
The usual ending to a friendly note?
I wonder if that week you still remember,
The shooting lunches and round games of cards,
Our walks and talks that wonderful September—
I wonder what you meant by "kind regards"!
With kind regards, and eyes that, reading, soften
I read your note, most blessed among cards,
And think of you—I dare not say how often—
With kind regards.
Appropriate.—The Command of the Sea, by Wilkinson Shaw. The author will be hereafter known as "Sea-Shaw."
