Futility Closet

"An Expostulation"

Posted in Humor, Poems by Greg Ross on January 14th, 2008

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When late I attempted your pity to move
Why seem'd you so deaf to my pray'rs?
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love
But — Why did you kick me downstairs?

– Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733-1808)