A Very Ancient Man

from Marjorie Charles Driscoll, published in Motion Picture Classics in 1928, The beginning kind of reminds me of Stephen Crane's "In the Desert"

I met a very ancient man

with gray and revered head.

"It is growing dark," I said to him,

And this is what he said.

"Drifting shadows crept over the

World as suppliant Day knelt at the

threshold of Night, pleading for the

black of darkness."

I looked up at him in mild surprise,

He wept "Ah, well-a-day!

I once wrote titles for the films,

And now I talk this way!