Clerk, corresponding, <br />“Rooster and Comb”, <br />Here I sit idle <br />“Thinking of home”; <br />I must be grafting— <br />Living to earn, <br />More correspondence, <br />“Write by return.” <br /> <br />Clerk in employ of <br />“Shoddy and Woods”, <br />Thinks that we have not <br />Forwarded goods. <br />Parcel we sent them— <br />Missing, I learn, <br />Says in his postscript: <br />“Write by return.” <br /> <br />Here is another <br />Letter from Bland— <br />“Cheque he expected <br />Isn’t to hand.” <br />How we forgot it <br />Cannot discern, <br />“Forward remittance, <br />Write by return.” <br /> <br />Here is another— <br />O how they come? <br />Treats of a “Bender” <br />Planned by a chum. <br />See on the margin, <br />Big letters: “Burn <br />After perusal— <br />Write by return.” <br /> <br />Mail in from England, <br />Letters for me— <br />Dear little sweetheart <br />Over the sea. <br />“Quite broken-hearted, <br />O how I yearn <br />Only to see you. . . . <br />Write by return.” <br /> <br />One who will “never <br />Think that I’m bad” <br />Writes me a letter <br />Tearful and sad. <br />Thinks that I’m starving, <br />Filled with concern, <br />Sends me some money— <br />“Write by return.” <br /> <br />Letter from father, <br />Sent to his son, <br />“All is forgiven— <br />Fat calf for one.” <br />O that I ever <br />Thought he was stern— <br />Money for passage— <br />Write by return.<br /><br />Henry Lawson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/write-by-return/
