And there are fewer wise men, now,
Than once upon a time!”
Josephine Preston Peabody Marks.
HOW LIKE A WOMAN
I WANTED you to come to-day—
Or so I told you in my letter—
And yet, if you had stayed away,
I should have liked you so much better.
I should have sipped my tea unseen,
And thrilled at every door-bell’s pealing,