Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FUIT ILIUM, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN


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First Line: Ere you dissipate a quarter
Last Line: And tobacco grows, a weed.
Subject(s): Poverty


Ere you dissipate a quarter
Do you scrutinize it twice?
Have you ceased to look on water-
Drinking as a nauseous vice?
Do you wear your brother's breeches,
Though the buttons scarcely meet?
Does the vanity of riches
Form no part of your conceit?

I am with you, fellow pauper!
Let us share our scanty crust—
Burst the bonds of fiscal torpor—
Go where beer is sold on trust!
Let us, freed from res angustae,
Seek some fair Utopian mead
Where the throat is never dusty,
And tobacco grows, a weed.





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