Audition

Life, a Play

In three parts, now

Is two parts done.

 

In this,

The final interval

We rearrange our scores,

The Orchestra, still poised

Will sit

To practice discords

At the pit.

 

Then like rent cloth

The curtains start,

The stage is lit;

And I would venture

At my part...

 

Were I not so

Afraid of it.

 

David Lewis Paget