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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OLD NEST, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poet's Biography
First Line: Though I seem to you now but a rag forlorn
Last Line: For a king and a queen at the heart of delight.
Subject(s): Aging
First Line: Though I seem to you now but a rag forlorn
Last Line: For a king and a queen at the heart of delight.
Subject(s): Aging
THOUGH I seem to you now but a rag forlorn,
Rain-swept, wind-swept, bitter of plight,
I have stood as an empire fixed in the thorn
For a king and a queen at the heart of delight.
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