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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GASCON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poet's Biography
First Line: A gascon one day when a cardinal's guest
Last Line: "in the course of one hour I would bottle it all."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Rivers
First Line: A gascon one day when a cardinal's guest
Last Line: "in the course of one hour I would bottle it all."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Rivers
AGASCON one day when a Cardinal's guest,
Great boast of his river the Garonne exprest;
So deep, so expansive, so rapid in flow,
The world to that river no rival could show.
Said his host, "Then, compared to that wonderful stream,
You the Tiber at Rome but a rivulet deem?"
"The Tiber forsooth!" he indignantly said;
"Let it hide underground its diminutive head;
Should it dare, Sir, to flow by my old castle wall,
In the course of one hour I would bottle it all."
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