Poems (Piatt)/Volume 1/"I Want it Yesterday"

by Sarah Piatt

"I WANT IT YESTERDAY."

"Come, take the flower—it is not dead;
 'Twas kept in dew the soft night through."
"I will not have it now," he said:
 "I want it yesterday, I do."

"It is as red, it is as sweet"—
 With angry tears he turned away,
Then flung it fiercely at his feet,
 And said, "I want it—yesterday!"