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THE DIVAN: L'ENVOI by ARTHUR PETERSON

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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