Show 11ORX TOO LATE I wish Id neer beer born at allI really truly do Theres nothing In the whole wide world that doesnt make me lilac I cannot make a mark in life because beneath the sun Theres nothing new each ppldid thing has been already done Take writing plays what is there seft for me to write Shakespeare has written Hamlet and lies made it cut of sight And Sheridan and Robertson have done the comedies That were worth while and in that line theres nothing left to please In poetry old Homer and John Milton had a start That when I sit down to write deprives me of all heart And Virgil Horace Tennyson and Browning Brown-ing and A Pope Have simply eft me stranded and com pletuly id of hope I tried to write a novel and I wrote It with much vim And when twas done I called on Smith and read it all to him Its very good said he but it will surely tumble flat Because of course you know it Thack cray did that I found it so and when I cast about for other themes Discovered there was nothing in the world not even dreams That others had not treated ere I came unto this earth And hence it is I ask what is life in this world worth Gerome and Rubens Meissonier Van L yck and all that crew Have finished up the painting that a fellowd like to do Until theres only one thing for a mar of any pride To do and thats been done before id est to suicide Harpers Bazar |