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QUID DEDICATUM.
Oh what should be the poet's prayer
Before his own Apollo's shrine?
Ease and renown the world deems fair,
Not thither should his heart incline.
Before his own Apollo's shrine?
Ease and renown the world deems fair,
Not thither should his heart incline.
Not for the wealth that others love—
Red gold, and jewels' varied gleam;
For meadows, where the slow herds move,
Encircled by a silent stream;
Red gold, and jewels' varied gleam;
For meadows, where the slow herds move,
Encircled by a silent stream;
But for a wise and generous heart;
Too true to hate, too wise to sigh,
And when the fiery thoughts depart,
To lay his broken music by.
Too true to hate, too wise to sigh,
And when the fiery thoughts depart,
To lay his broken music by.
Eton, 1887.
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