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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONCERNING EMPERORS: 2. A COLLOQUIAL REPLY - TO ANY NEWSBOY, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: If you lay for iago at the stage door with a brick
Last Line: Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War
First Line: If you lay for iago at the stage door with a brick
Last Line: Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War
If you lay for Iago at the stage door with a brick
You have missed the moral of the play.
He will have a midnight supper with Othello and his wife.
They will chirp together and be gay.
But the things Iago stands for must go down into the dust:
Lying and suspicion and conspiracy and lust.
And I cannot hate the Kaiser (I hope you understand.)
Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand.
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