MELODIAN

I have been at this shooting-gallery too long.

It is monotonous how the little coloured balls

Make up and down on their silvery water thread;

It would be pleasant to have money and go instead

To watch your greasy audience in the threepenny stalls

Of the World-famous Caravan of Dance and Song.

And I want to go out beyond the turf fires there,

After I've looked at your just smiling face,

To that untented silent dark blue nighted place;