Poets On Poets

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Poets On Poets
Jane Maria Grant Strachey
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Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, Swift.
With droll sobriety they raised a smile, At folly's cost, themselves unmoved the while.
That constellation set, the world in vain Must hope to look upon their like again.
A. Are we then left B. Not wholly in the dark ; Wit now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark, Sufficient to redeem the modern race From total night and absolute disgrace. While servile trick and imitative knack Confine the million in the be
...aten track, Perhaps some courser, who disdains the road, Snuffs up the wind, and flings himself abroad.
Ccntemporaries all surpass'd, see one ; Churchill.
Short his career indeed, but ably run ; Churchill ; himself unconscious of his powers, In penury consumed his idle hours ; And, like a scatter'd seed at random sown, Was left to spring by vigour of his own. Lifted at length, by dignity of thought And dint of genius, to an affluent lot, 1 70 BURNS.
He laid his head in luxury's soft lap, And took, too often, there his easy nap.


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