Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LINES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON


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First Line: I saw you, seated on a horse's head
Last Line: The unseeing circle of funereal faces.


Addressed to the Spectre of an Elderly Gentleman, recently
demised, Whom the Author had once observed performing
a Benevolent Office in the Vicinity of Holborn, W. C.

I saw you, seated on a horse's head,
While the blaspheming carter cut the traces,
Obese, white-waistcoated, and newly fed,
Through bland, indifferent monocle surveying
The gaping circle of indifferent faces.

And now, the news has come that you are dead,
I see you, while they cut the tangled traces,
On your own hearse's fallen horse's head,
Through bland, indifferent monocle surveying
The unseeing circle of funereal faces.





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