The proper sentiment being yet retained
Without a jest against the reader’s will,
Though slightly altered, “As you like it” still.
T. F. Dillon-Croker.
From The Ladies’ Companion, March, 1865.
“All the world is but a stage,” Shakespeare told us long ago,
Had he graced the present age, still the Bard had found it so;
All that from existence springs, in a theatre’s compass lies,
Happy moments find the “wings” time itself takes those and “flies,”