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THE SEA REPLIES TO BYRON by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: STROLL ON, THOU DARK NOT DEEP 'BLUE' DANDY, STROLL
Last Line: ABSCONDED; GONE ABROAD; ADDRESS UNKNOWN.'
Subject(s): BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD (1788-1824); POETRY & POETS; BYRON, GEORGE GORDON BYRON, 6TH BARON;

Stroll on, thou dark not deep 'blue' dandy, stroll,
Ten thousand duns call after thee in vain.
Thy tailor's marked with ruin; his control
Stops with my shore; beyond he doth retain
No shadow of a chance of what's his own,
But sinks above his bills with bubbling groan,
'Absconded; gone abroad; address unknown.'



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