Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SOLUTIONS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN


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First Line: The swallow flew like lightning over the green
Last Line: Beheaded it for blooming insolence.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


The swallow flew like lightning over the green
And through the gate-bars (a hand's breadth between);
He hurled his blackness at that chink and won;
The problem scarcely rose and it was done.

The spider, chance-confronted with starvation,
Took up another airy situation;
His working legs, as it appeared to me,
Had mastered practical geometry.

The old dog dreaming in his frowsy cask
Enjoyed his rest and did not drop his task;
He knew the person of 'no fixed abode',
And challenged as he shuffled down the road.

These creatures which (Buffon and I agree)
Lag far behind the human faculty
Worked out the question set with satisfaction
And promptly took the necessary action.

By this successful sang-froid I, employed
On 'Who wrote Shakespeare?' justly felt annoyed,
And seeing an evening primrose by the fence
Beheaded it for blooming insolence.




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