IN COURSE OF TIME.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 163, 7 April 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

IN COURSE OF TIME.

When Maud and I were nine or ten. We shared our every grjef and joy, Piayet. 1 , quarrelled, "made it up" a n-a i i!, As if .she, too, had beer, a boy. B:,t when we reached thirteen or so, I seldom lot her join my play: " on're nothing but a girl, you know." W ;t!i frank contempt I used to say. passed, and we are seventeen ; Then Maud was older far than 1 ; She laughed at me, with scorn serene, For I was "just a boy," and shy. But when we came to twenty-three, It more than settled all arrears; She then had due respect for me. And quite ignored our equal years. And Time, though obdurate to men, Can spare his scvtlie, it seems, at will; For now mv son is nearly ton, Wlule Maud is three-and-twentv still'