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TO A FAVOURED POET |
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XVI
TO A FAVOURED POET
Minstrel, if I like thee found place and time
In field and grove to meditate my lays,
Where spinning leaf with whirling eddy plays
Feeding the thirsty ear with fluent chime;
Or, where thick bees besiege the towering lime,
Or the long wood in one green billow sways,
With harp attuned might court Apollo's praise,
Sight, scent, and sound embalming in sweet rhyme:
Not, haply, then should I to thee consign
This lonely note like plunging pebble flung
Where thy full river widens to the sea.
As works her web the spider, I have wrung
An arduous music from my bosom; thine
Besets thy daily path, as flowers the bee.
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