At a Rehearsal of One of J.M.B.’s Plays  9006

If any day a promised play
Should be in preparation,
You never see friend J. M. B.
Depressed or in elation.

But with a stick, rough, crooked and thick,
You may sometimes discern him,
Standing as though a mummery show
Did not at all concern him.

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  • Mary Rose • Hardy's poem was written at a rehearsal of Barrie's Mary Rose
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