Lain in Nature — so suffice us
The enchantless Pod
When we advertise existence
For the missing Seed —
Maddest Heart that God created
Cannot move a sod
Pasted by the simple summer
On the Longed for Dead
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Go forth in life, O friend, not seeking love;
A mendicant that with imploring eye
And outstretched hand asks of the passers-by
The alms his strong necessities may move.
For such poor love, to pity near allied,
Thy generous spirit should not...Oh, England is a pleasant place for those that's rich and high;
But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I;
And such a port for Mariners I ne'er shall see again,
As the pleasant Isle of Avés, beside the Spanish main.
There were forty craft in Avés that were both swift and stout,
All furnish'd well...Oh, the new-chum went to the backblock run,
But he should have gone there last week.
He tramped ten miles with a loaded gun,
But of turkey of duck saw never a one,
For he should have been there last week,
They said,
There were flocks of 'em there last week.
He wended his way to a...Lay this Laurel on the One
Too intrinsic for Renown —
Laurel — veil your deathless tree —
Him you chasten, that is He!I
Lars Porsena of Clusium
By the Nine Gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrong no more.
By the Nine Gods he swore it,
And named a trysting day,
And bade his messengers ride forth,
...A Lay Sung at the Feast of Castor and Pollux on the Ides of
Quintilis in the year of the City CCCCLI.
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Ho, trumpets, sound a war-note!
Ho, lictors, clear the way!
The Knights will ride, in all their pride,
Along the streets to-day.
...A Lay Sung at the Banquet in the Capitol, on the Day Whereon
Manius Curius Dentatus, a Second Time Consul, Triumphed Over King
Pyrrhus and the Tarentines, in the Year of the City CCCCLXXIX.
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Now slain is King Amulius,
Of the great Sylvian line,
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