Walter Learned. To Critics. Fuess and Stearns, comps. 1922. The Little Book of Society Verse

Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.

To Critics

By Walter Learned


WHEN I was seventeen I heard
From each censorious tongue,
“I’d not do that if I were you;
You see you’re rather young.”

Now that I number forty years,	5
I’m quite as often told
Of this or that I should n’t do
Because I’m quite too old.

O carping world! If there ’s an age
Where youth and manhood keep	10
An equal poise, alas! I must
Have passed it in my sleep.