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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SIC SEMPER, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF
First Line: Goliath beat his breast and curled his beard
Last Line: Sat polishing a rounded pebble smooth.
Subject(s): Goliath
First Line: Goliath beat his breast and curled his beard
Last Line: Sat polishing a rounded pebble smooth.
Subject(s): Goliath
Goliath beat his breast and curled his beard,
Disguised his egotism with small i's.
Wrote free verse for the Broom, so I have heard,
Press-agented himself in every wise.
One hairy ear cupped in a hairy paw
Alert for every veer or passing whim. . . .
Goliath painted blue his lower jaw --
It made the editors stare after him.
Colossally he strode, while critics gaped;
Reluctant artists hurried home, revised
Their outworn methods, imitated, aped,
Goliathisms everywhere were prized!
But David, unsophisticated youth,
Sat polishing a rounded pebble smooth.
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