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TO THE MASTER OF BALLIOL.
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Dear Master in our classic town,You, loved by all the younger gown
There at Balliol,
Lay your Plato for one minute down,
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And read a Grecian tale re-told,Which, cast in later Grecian mould,
Quintus Calaber
Somewhat lazily handled of old;
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And on this white midwinter day—For have the far-off hymns of May,
All her melodies,
All her harmonies echo'd away?—
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To-day, before you turn againTo thoughts that lift the soul of men,
Hear my cataract's
Downward thunder in hollow and glen,
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Till, led by dream and vague desire,The woman, gliding toward the pyre,
Find her warrior
Stark and dark in his funeral fire.
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