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Michael Villiers, Idealist

And Other Poems. By E. H. Hickey
Hickey, Emily Henrietta (1845-1924)

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TO HENRY AND LAURA JULIA HOWGRAVE GRAHAM
  
[They had their visions of the perfect State]
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MICHAEL VILLIERS, IDEALIST
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‘The world has grown too wise for patriotism!’
Said a young beardless, narrow-shouldered man,
Bred on a lustre or two of narrow thought
Which deemed itself the broadest of the day:
He called himself a cosmopolitan.
And Michael Villiers smiled, and answered him;
‘Perhaps! then let us be behind our time;
A whit more foolish than our fellows are;
And love the land that bore us best of all!’
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