So Long Ago

So Long Ago

by Martha Linsley Spencer

I held within my hands today
The book
in which she wrote her name —
“Prudence Corwin’s book.”
(it read)
“Seventeen hundred and seventy-nine.”
the letters
Clear and plain as she had written them,
So long ago —
Upon the title page
(it said)
“Paradise Lost, a poem — the author,
John Milton.”

My great Grandmother read this book —
So long ago — So long ago.

(Northford 1930.)

Public domain.