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EPIGRAM ON THE BRAZIERS' COMPANY HAVING RESOLVED by GEORGE GORDON BYRON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE BRAZIERS, IT SEEMS, ARE PREPARING TO PASS
Last Line: I OWE, IN GREAT PART, TO MY PASSION FOR PASTRY.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS; WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850);

THE braziers, it seems, are preparing to pass
An address, and present it themselves all in brass --
A superfluous pageant -- for, by the Lord Harry,
They'll find where they're going much more than they carry.

There's an Ode for you, is it not? -- worthy
Of Wordsworth, the grand metaquizzical poet,
A man of vast merit, though few people know it;
The perusal of whom (as I told you at Mestri)
I owe, in great part, to my passion for pastry.



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