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With apologies to Lord Tennyson.

(”The grant of suffrage to women is repugnant to instincts that strike
their roots deep in the order of nature. It runs counter to human
reason, it flouts the teachings of experience and the admonitions of
common sense.”—N.Y. Times, Feb. 7, 1915.)


Oh, that ’twere possible
  After those words inane
For me to read The Times
  Ever again!

When I was wont to read it
  In the early morning hours,
In a mood ‘twixt wrath and mirth,
  I exclaimed: “Alas, Ye Powers,
These ideas are fainter, quainter
  Than anything on earth!”

A paper’s laid before me.
  Not thou, not like to thee.
Dear me, if it were possible
  The Times should ever see
How very far the times have moved
  (Spelt with a little “t”).