Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GLORIOUS GAME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON


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First Line: I go about dumfoundedly, and show a dullard's glance
Last Line: Sky-larking down the days!
Subject(s): Faith; Music & Musicians; Truth; Belief; Creed


I GO about dumfoundedly, and show a dullard's glance,
But in my mind are spangles, and music and a dance, --
Tra-la, the hid romance!

And I suspect, O brothers (and sisters, drab and prim),
'Tis quite the same with all of you, with every her and him
That goes in masking trim.

The whole world hides the truth; and, faith, it is a parlous shame
To make a pale-faced misery of such a glorious game
-- With all of us to blame.

So let us be like mummers who grin and lift their lays
And kick their heels at heaven a hundred happy ways,
Sky-larking down the days!





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