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5
GOING UPSTAIRS
Apair of unknown ladies of the stage
Who spend their time in laughing all day long
And coming home at midnight oft prolong
With friends a revel till the dawn is sage;
Who spend their time in laughing all day long
And coming home at midnight oft prolong
With friends a revel till the dawn is sage;
A gentleman accustomed to assuage
His passion at the piano with a song
While caring little if the notes are wrong,
Who seems to earn a handsome weekly wage;
His passion at the piano with a song
While caring little if the notes are wrong,
Who seems to earn a handsome weekly wage;
A broken-down French noble and a clerk,
An ancient lady, nervous, lean and worn;
I pass them all while stumbling in the dark,
An ancient lady, nervous, lean and worn;
I pass them all while stumbling in the dark,
And lo! the little room, where overborne
With hunger and fatigue and luck's delay
I slumber till the fruitless, hopeless day.
With hunger and fatigue and luck's delay
I slumber till the fruitless, hopeless day.
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