But no beam of sunset was seen in the sky:
“Oh, let us to sleep; and the children will play
To-morrow at day break, when we are away:
For the old world goes on rolling.”
From The Mocking Bird, and other Poems,
by Frederick Field. J. Van Voorst, London, 1868.
Three Students.
Three Students sat writing with lips compressed
In a well-known house with their heads bent down;
Each thought of the “tip” that might serve him best,