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AGONY:

A POEM AFTER THE MODERN SCHOOL.

For black is white and pink is blue!

Tell me is virtue not vice, in sooth?

And falsehood what but incongruous truth?

Glittering threads of thought I weave,

Warp and woof, into cloth of gold.

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And eke revamp the legends of old,-

Poetical hash of old and new.

Hash! inscrutable mystery!

Vanished the maiden, - woe is me!

I wander adown the meadows brown;

The clear Charles plasheth and whispereth low,-

Whispereth low in its somnolent flow,

Beareth me tales from field, from town.

Over the river sunbeams quiver;

Where is happiness? - Gone forever.

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