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AGONY:

A POEM AFTER THE MODERN SCHOOL.

WE poets are not as other men,

But cast in a different mould, -

By sparkling beck o'er weary wold

Till it hide it in furzy fen,

We stray, and straying muse, what time

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Birds make music and poets make rhyme.

In sunny shallow grow mild marsh-mallow

And crispy cress and fiery flag;

The slight stream rests at foot o' the crag

Like panting dame after valse or galop,

While courteous breezes vainly seek

To fan the bloom from her shell-hued cheek.

I am a poet! I tell you true,-

The very saying doth make me so;

Maketh me poet (as poets go),

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