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Last Line: In building up, all poets to amaze
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Roundels; Poetry & Poets


A roundel seems to fit a round of days
Be they the days of upright man or scoundrel:
Allow me to construct then in your praise
A roundel.
(This flower of wit turns out a weed like groundsel:
Yet deign to welcome it, as loftiest bays
Grown on the shore of Girvan's ocean groundswell.)
Accept the love that underlies the lays;
Condone the barbarous rhymes that will not sound well
In building up, all Poets to amaze.





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