Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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THE TRAGIC AND HIGH-PASSIONED BUSKIN.
They lead more lives than one, who on the stagePlay many parts, and spend their heart and brain
On proxièd sorrow and vicarious pain:
Who doubly bear, with Lear, madness and age,
Or, with distraught Othello, love and rage;
Who muttering, crazed, “Out, damnèd spot!” sustain
The load of crime, or poor Ophelia's bane,
Or with “To be or not to be” war wage!
With these, that Life upon a stage more real,
With many parts too, many hard to play
Before stern critics, through its woe and weal,
The feign'd and reál often in one day.
Life's light thus burning at both ends must sweal
And flare, and in its own heat waste away!
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