Ah, then—too late, too late!

E. S. Watson.

The Christian Leader, April 30, 1885.

——:o:——

Tennyson.
(On his reported Lunacy.)

You—you—if you have failed to understand

That England thought you knew the poet’s trick,

On you now comes the laughter of the land

For that mysterious kick

Which falls too late—too late.