Heavens above! here's an old tie of your-- <br />Sea-green dragons stamped on a golden ground. <br />Ha! Ha! Ha! What children we were in those days. <br /> <br />Do you love me enough to wear it now? <br />Have you the courage of your pristine glories? <br />Ha! Ha! Ha! You laugh and shrug your shoulders. <br /> <br />Those were the days when a new tie spelt a fortune: <br />We wore it in turn--I flaunted it as a waist-belt. <br />Ha! Ha! Ha! What easily satisfied babies. <br /> <br />"I think I'll turn into a piano duster." <br />"Give it to me, I'll polish my slippers on it!" <br />Ha! Ha! Ha! The rag's not worth the dustbin. <br /> <br />"Throw the shabby old thing right out of the window; <br />Fling it into the faces of other children!" <br />Ha! Ha! Ha! We laughed and laughed till the tears <br /> came!<br /><br />Katherine Mansfield<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/jangling-memory/
