Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/To my Friend's Wife
To my Friend's Wife
(reading Murray's Magazine).
Men talk, men work, men glow, men live, men die,
Peal at the ear and lighten in the eye:
While woman, wedded to a magazine,
Turns one cold eye upon the maddening scene.
Peal at the ear and lighten in the eye:
While woman, wedded to a magazine,
Turns one cold eye upon the maddening scene.