By Severn Sea and Other Poems By T. Herbert Warren |
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TO HENRY OLIVE DANIEL OF WORCESTER COLLEGE,
WITH A COPY OF THE WORKS OF SAMUEL DANIEL
THE POET |
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TO HENRY OLIVE DANIEL OF WORCESTER COLLEGE, WITH A COPY OF THE WORKS OF SAMUEL DANIEL THE POET
Daniel, well-lettered son of Somerset,
And even as he who did these lays indite
‘Well-languaged,’ take them, yours they are by right
Of name and nurture, and hereafter let—
Lest we fair Delia's Petrarch should forget—
Some choice exemplar stand for our delight,
Type, paper, margin, all things, trimly dight,
Your Excudebat for their warrant set!
And even as he who did these lays indite
‘Well-languaged,’ take them, yours they are by right
Of name and nurture, and hereafter let—
Lest we fair Delia's Petrarch should forget—
Some choice exemplar stand for our delight,
Type, paper, margin, all things, trimly dight,
Your Excudebat for their warrant set!
For you enrich the poet-shrining shelf
With daintiest treasures old and new, and give
In many a nice and justly-ordered page
Back to mechanic days of haste and pelf
The tasteful Tudor touch,—so these shall live
Green as their shire and yours from age to age.
With daintiest treasures old and new, and give
In many a nice and justly-ordered page
Back to mechanic days of haste and pelf
The tasteful Tudor touch,—so these shall live
Green as their shire and yours from age to age.
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