Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THREE QUATRAINS: 2, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON


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First Line: Drink to the splendor of the unfulfilled
Last Line: The strings that nero fingered are all gone.


Drink to the splendor of the unfulfilled,
Nor shudder for the revels that are done:
The wines that flushed Lucullus are all spilled,
The strings that Nero fingered are all gone.






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