Poems (Piatt)/Volume 1/"I Want it Yesterday"

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4617692Poems — "I Want it Yesterday"Sarah Piatt
"I WANT IT YESTERDAY."
"Come, take the flower—it is not dead;
'Twas kept in dew the soft night through."
"I will not have it now," he said:
"I want it yesterday, I do."

"It is as red, it is as sweet"—
With angry tears he turned away,
Then flung it fiercely at his feet,
And said, "I want it—yesterday!"