5 AUGUST 1911, Page 17

FLORENCE.•

APRIL FIRST.

"Conn, let us be the willing fools Of April's earliest day,

And dream we own all pleasant things The years have reft away.

'Tis but to take the poet's wand, A touch or here or there, And I have lost that ancient stoop, And you are young and fair.

Ah, no ! The years that gave and took Have left with you and me The wisdom of the widening stream; Trust we the larger sea."