Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/To my Friend's Wife

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First published in the "Things One Would Rather Have Expressed Differently" section of Lapsus Calami, "To my Friend's Wife" was dropped from the third edition and never reinstated.

1802411Lapsus Calami — To my Friend's WifeJ.K.S.

To my Friend's Wife
(reading Murray's Magazine).

Men talk, men work, men glow, men live, men die,
Peal at the ear and lighten in the eye:
While woman, wedded to a magazine,
Turns one cold eye upon the maddening scene.