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First Line: I am too old to be ensnared
Last Line: I am too old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


I AM too old to be ensnared
By formless verse. For I first aired
My boyish lyre in Dobson's rule,
And taught myself in that strict school
To have my stanzas filed and pared.

How hopelessly for rhymes I stared!
But chipped and polished till I bared
The finer grain. Discard my tool?
I am too old.

I vote for verses craftsman-cared --
Landor'd, Dobson'd, De la Mare'd;
For rhyme is still the quiet pool
Where Beauty is reflected. You'll
Agree (as many have declared)
I am too old.





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