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.
Locations in Harold's Library
- Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems (book)
- page 952
- in "Uncollected poems"
- The Plays of J. M. Barrie (book) with the title "At a rehearsal of Mary Rose"
This work has the following connections with other works:
- Mary Rose • Hardy's poem was written at a rehearsal of Barrie's Mary Rose
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