Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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LXI
TO A STRANGE TEACHER
Trouble me no more. The world is very wide
And full of souls whose primal faith has fled.
Go first to them; and leave one simple head,
Wherein the earlier teachings still abide.
Why seek to fill a mouth that has not cried,
To clog satiety of bread with bread?
Can any hunger having richly fed?
Can one be full, and yet dissatisfied?
If I were wretched, you should perhaps prevail;
At least I might give ear to you. But now,
Because I am so happy, and because
Content with life, I would be as I was,
Your message moves me not. Who questions how
To dig new cisterns, till the elder fail?
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