I danced at your ball a year ago, To-night I pay for your bread and cheese, "And a glass of bitter, if you please, For you drank my best champagne, you know!" Madcap ever, you laugh the while, As you drink your bitter and munch your bread; The face is the same, and the same old smile Came up at a word I said. A year ago I danced at your ball, I sit by your side in the bar to-night; And the luck has changed, you say: that's all! And the luck will change, you say: all right! For the men go by, and the rent's to pay, And you haven't a friend in the world to-day; And the money comes and the money goes: And to-night, who cares? and to-morrow, who knows? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN AMERICAN IN BANGKOK by KAREN SWENSON THE PRINCESS: LULLABY by ALFRED TENNYSON THE MARCH OF XERXES by LUIGI ALAMANNI COMPANIONSHIP by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD THE THREE SORROWS by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX LINES ON THE DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES by THOMAS CAMPBELL TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SO THIN A VEIL by EDWARD CARPENTER |