Show some people dislike clocks I 1 loathe clockel they are like your frank people who are always bawling unpleasant truths at you As I 1 look up from my work just now and catch the eye of that brazen little monster on the shelf it almost seems as though it was gloating over the fact that time has the best of me ah hal it seems to be saying would like to keep your bloom a little longer would you dont like to think how late in the day its getting for some folks and how near the bedtime of the gravel but mortals cant hold on to youth and they cant forget the inn where they are bound to sleep the night of deabi away while ray brazen tongue is wagging youre on the lightning express that stops at no station and ave got hold of the throttle valve my dearl well you little beast go on with your exulting beat of passing aimel swing yourself loose and hurry us away to the sea as a spiteful tug tackles an outward bound ocean steamers ste amerl some day we will get it all back on you when we stand under the new heavens checked off with no meridian of aimel we shall forget you and your paltry environments as completely as the summer forgets the winter or the sunshine forgets the storm meantime I 1 would like to demolish you with a meat aal chicago herald |