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First Line: When poets suffer long from lack of vogue
Last Line: 01/18/14
Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; English


When Poets suffer long from lack of vogue
They give their verses to some kindred rogue.
Thus, versifying Ancient, lo, we come
With odes in box close packed like figs in drum!
Accept the same! for mutual admiration
Has often been the making of a nation!
We came here in a motor greatly crowded—
This part of our proceedings must stay shrouded,
But had our motor been to atoms dashed,
Then had old England's Helicon been squashed
Flat, for the bardic throng had been abated
By loss of the Non-paid and Underrated
None had remained save Watson, Binyon, Bridges,
To climb the poor old mountain's tumbled ridges,
While Phillips, cup in hand, had sat close by
Penning on half our kind an Elegy!
Jan 16

Of Yeats, they say, some vertebrae were found,
Of Masefield half the scalp, the cheek of Pound,
The tooth of Flint, the stomach, I feel sure,
Of that tremendous fellow Sturgius Moore
And of the scintillating brain of Plarr
The centre that resembled a bright star!
This happened on the journey back to London
When we and all our hopes were wholly undone,
And all the glories of achievement rash
Were clouded in the memorable smash!
Jan 18





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