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OF A CERTAIN POET, by                    
First Line: Sanely they told the sensitive youth
Last Line: They spoke the truth.
Subject(s): Irony; Poetry & Poets


Sanely they told the sensitive youth
He could not write a poem. And, sooth,
They spoke the truth.

He did not pen dull lines with care:
No; he shot winged words into the air,
And there
They caught the rustle of the breeze
In slim tall trees;
They sang the cadence of the stars;
They swept the bars
Of trailing sunsets; trilled the words
Learned of song birds.
Higher and wilder sped their verbal flight
As fleet as humming bird, as pure, as light,
Or mad as equinoctial sea at night --
Crying, sobbing, laughing, leaping along:
Thus went his song.

They were not wrong
Who sanely told the sensitive youth
He could not write a poem. Sooth,
They spoke the truth.





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