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TO TRIFLERS by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN

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First Line: GO, TRIFLERS WITH GOD'S SECRET. FAR, OH, FAR

Go, triflers with God's secret. Far, oh far
Be your thin monotone, your brows
Your backward-looking faces; for ye mar light.
With flowers around the feverish temples bound,
Take all the summer pleasures ye have
While Circe- charm'd ye turn to bird and
Meantime I sit apart, a lonely wight
By those who sat before him in that
On this bare rock amid this fitful Sea,
And in the wind and rain I try to light
A little lamp that may a Beacon be,
Whereby poor ship -folk, driving thro' the night
May gain the Ocean -course, and think of me!




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