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THE POET'S DESIRE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: HE CRAVES NOT THE BOON OF PLEASURE
Last Line: AND THE VOICE BEFORE HE DIES.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; DESIRE; EARTH; POETRY & POETS; VOICES; WORLD;
HE craves not the boon of pleasure,
Nor the glory of the earth,
He hears in the music's measure
The measure of all worth.
He follows a mystic Duty,
Shy, with fathomless eyes:
And yearns for the vision of Beauty
And the Voice before he dies.



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