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WEEK-END SONNET: 9 by HAROLD MONRO

First Line: BE STAID! BE CAREFUL; AND BE NOT TOO FREE
Last Line: WEEK-END BEGINS TO MERGE ITSELF IN WEEK.

Be staid; be careful; and be not too free.
Temptation to enjoy your liberty
May rise against you, break into a crime,
And smash the habit of employing Time.
It serves no purpose that the careful clock
Mark the appointment, the officious train
Hurry to keep it, if the minutes mock
Loud in your ear: 'Late. Late. Late. Late again.'
Week-end is very well on Saturday:
On Monday it's a different affair—
A little episode, a trivial stay
In some oblivious spot somehow, somewhere.
On Sunday night we hardly laugh or speak:
Week-end begins to merge itself in Week.



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