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Henry Austin Dobson - On The Hurry Of This Time

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With slower pen men used to write, <br />Of old, when 'letters' were 'polite'; <br />In Anna's, or in George's days, <br />They could afford to turn a phrase, <br />Or trim a straggling theme aright. <br /> <br />They knew not steam; electric light <br />Not yet had dazed their calmer sight; - <br />They meted out both blame and praise <br />With slower pen. <br /> <br />Too swiftly now the hours take flight! <br />What's read at morn is dead at night; <br />Scant space have we for Art's delays, <br />Whose breathless thought so briefly stays, <br />We may not work - ah! would we might! - <br />With slower pen.<br /><br />Henry Austin Dobson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-hurry-of-this-time/

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