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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DIVAN: L'ENVOI, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poet's Biography
First Line: Go forth, my prentice-book, and if
Last Line: Before life's battle-work began.
Subject(s): Youth
First Line: Go forth, my prentice-book, and if
Last Line: Before life's battle-work began.
Subject(s): Youth
Go forth, my prentice-book, and if
Men, in your simple meters, mark
Not the proud flight of ocean-bark,
But dallyings of some pleasure-skiff,
What matter? On thy leaves, Divan,
In golden adolescent days,
A minne-singer wrote his lays,
Before life's battle-work began.
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