Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ODELL, by JAMES STEPHENS



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First Line: My mind is sad and weary thinking how
Last Line: And see odell, the tax-collector, hung!
Subject(s): Curses; Taxes


My mind is sad and weary thinking how
Our noblemen are all gone oversea;
Are far from Ireland, and are fighting now
In France, and Flanders, and in Germany.

If they, whom I could talk to without dread,
Were home I should not mind what foe might do;
Nor see the tax-collector seize my bed
To pay the hearth-rate that is overdue.

I pray to Him -- who, in the haughty hour
Of Babel, threw confusion on each tongue --
That I may see our princes back in power,
And see Odell, the tax-collector, hung!





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