Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/To my Friend's Wife

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Lapsus Calami
by James Kenneth Stephen

To my Friend's Wife

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First published here, but dropped from the third edition and never reinstated.

1802411Lapsus Calami — To my Friend's WifeJames Kenneth Stephen

To my Friend's Wife
(reading Murray's Magazine).

Men talk, men work, men glow, men live, men die,Peal at the ear and lighten in the eye:While woman, wedded to a magazine,Turns one cold eye upon the maddening scene.