If Mr. Bright retiring does not please And Mr. Gladstone staying gives offence, What can man do which is not one of these? Use your own common sense. Yet he's brave man who abjures his cause For conscience' sake: let byegones be byegones: Not @3this@1 among the makers of our laws The least & and last of Johns. If all our byegones could be piled on shelves High out of reach of penny-line Tyrtaeus! If only all of us could see ourselves As others see us! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT; SONG by ROBERT BURNS THE RIGHT TO DIE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THRENODY by RALPH WALDO EMERSON ST. JOHN'S, CAMBRIDGE; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE WORLD'S WAY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH SACRED LYRIC by ISIDORE G. ASCHER THE ARTIST TO HIS WIFE by STANLEY KILNER BOOTH |