5 JULY 1930, Page 16

Time Importuned

WAIT, Time, wait.. . Time, wait a while ; It will be too late

To see her smile If you rush along So fast as this, Too late to hear her song Or know her kiss.

Linger but a day.. . Time, if you do, I will spread your way With gold and silver too.

I will catch a star And bind it where The lost moonbeams are Drowned in your hair.

Stay, Time, stay.. .

Hui," can come after ; If you fly away I shall lose her laughter.

What can I do To make you wait for me ? Shall I skim the blue From the deepest sea, And make a tulip

Jewel to charm your eyes,

And wrap it in a strip Of rainbow skies ?

Shall I call a troop

Of yellow daffodils To dance in a scoop Of the oak-shadowed hills, To dance to the moon Through a summer night To the water's tumbling tune, By a thousand glow-worms' light ?

If I steal the blush From a butterfly's wing To paint the evening hush When the nightingales sing, And take the pearls that lie In a rose at break of day For stars to wake the sky . .

Then would you stay ?

Wait, Time, wait.. .

Ere so very long It will be too late For a kiss or a song. A. It. U.