Reason Enough

Of course you’ll go to church, Miss Lou,

     This bright, glad Easter morning;

She shook her head, the April sun

     Her bare brown curls adorning.

“Not go to church on Easter day?”

     In askance I looked at her;

But when I saw her last year’s hat,

     I knew what was the matter.

April 5, ‘93

Pub. in Boston

Courier, March 25, 1894