Poems (Piatt)/Volume 1/"I Want it Yesterday"

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"I WANT IT YESTERDAY."
"Come, take the flower—it is not dead; 'Twas kept in dew the soft night through.""I will not have it now," he said: "I want it yesterday, I do."
"It is as red, it is as sweet"— With angry tears he turned away,Then flung it fiercely at his feet, And said, "I want it—yesterday!"

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