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First Line: Pity, if true, / what the pewterer said
Last Line: Hearts-of-gold and good fellows!
Subject(s): Friendship


Pity, if true,
What the pewterer said --
Hearts-of-gold be few.
Howbeit, when snug in my bed,
And the fire-light flickers and yellows,
I dream of the hearts-of-gold sped --
The Falernian fellows --
Hafiz and Horace,
And Beranger -- all
Dexterous tumblers eluding the Fall,
Fled? can be sped?
But the marygold's morris
Is danced o'er their head;
And their memory mellows,
Embalmed and becharmed,
Hearts-of-gold and good fellows!





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