Neglected Moon!

Neglected Moon! Romance and you

Are not in fashion now.

These moderns have no time to woo

And dare not risk a vow.

In good Victoria's ampler day,

By parks or village greens,

What fervent whiskers caught your ray,

What bashful crinolines!

In vain do you, with all your stars,

Make wood or river bright;

For lovers now rush by in cars,

And use electric light.

Yet now for once I'll dare to say

That, though we scorn the Past,

Perhaps the world was quite as gay

Before it went so fast.