Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1899-03-21 | Page 4 | A Reader's Lament

CI A RADERS LAMNT Carolyn VeIs in the Bookman I cannot read the old books I read long years ago Eliot Dickens Thakery Bulwer and Scott and Poe Marratts yarns of sailor life And Hugs tales of crime I cannot read the old books Because 1 havent time I love the dear old stories My thoughts to them will stray But still one must keep posted on The writers of today 1Iy desk is pied with latest books Im striving to dispatch But ere Ive finished all of them Therel be another batch Hopes new one isnt opened yet Ive not read James last And Howels is so prolific now And Crawford writes so fat Evelyn In1e5 I must skIm Oer Helbeck I must Dare The Days york Ill enjoy although Ive read the tales before And there is The Kings Jackal The Gadfly Caleb West Silence a he Forest Lovers and I cant name all the ret Ill try to keep up with the times But oh r hope that I May read my David COPIerfeld Once more before I die