Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HERNANI, by GEORGE MEREDITH


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First Line: Cistercians might crack their sides
Last Line: The horn of the old gentleman!
Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy


CISTERCIANS might crack their sides
With laughter, and exemption get,
At sight of heroes clasping brides,
And hearing -- O the horn! the horn!
The horn of their obstructive debt!

But quit the stage, that note applies
For sermons cosmopolitan,
Hernani. Have we filched our prize,
Forgetting . . . ? O the horn! the horn!
The horn of the Old Gentleman!





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