The Way of the Winepress By John Payne: With an Introduction by Thomas Wright |
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WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY.
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4. WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY.
(ob. July 11, 1903.)
A FIGHTER ever, mid the bullets' humForemost and fiercest in the battle's press;
In love still strenuous and in hate no less;
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Born of perfervidum ingenium,
Condone, which over often very stress
Caused him confound with song the effortless
And take for trumpet-thunder dub of drum;
His phrase that would have made Quintilian frown,
His slaughter of the written word, with noun
Confusing adjective, as “naught” with “nought;”
For that pretence and shams he still abhorred,
Still in the darkling days for England fought
And sang the song of justice and the Sword.
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