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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OATS FOR PEGASUS, by W. C. A. WALLAR
First Line: Why mute your music, critic-frightened soul?
Last Line: On strength-of-heart and blood-of-life he soars.
Subject(s): Mythical Animals; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Fictious Animals
First Line: Why mute your music, critic-frightened soul?
Last Line: On strength-of-heart and blood-of-life he soars.
Subject(s): Mythical Animals; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Fictious Animals
Why mute your music, critic-frightened soul?
Have Burns and Browning set the pace in vain?
Do not all shenachies provoke your strain?
Spill forth your tunes, your arias, pole to pole!
Enslave for harp and harmony the whole
Wide gamut of Earth's inarticulate pain,
Its crying chaos -- city, sea, and plain,
Go pilfer; seize, exploit it -- take your toll!
Let jazzing tom-toms draw the jaded crowd.
Let smartish clowns and weaklings crack their quips.
Where are the wings of Pegasus the Proud?
His silver hoofs leap not for spurs and whips.
A nose-bag stuffed with dollars he deplores!
On Strength-of-Heart and Blood-of-Life he soars.
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