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Cursory Rhymes - Humbert Wolfe
Humbert Wolfe
Cursory Rhymes
SAGA Egmont
Cursory Rhymes
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INVOCATION
FOR
MY DAUGHTER
ANN
Children , there is a lady, who
is younger far than all of you,
who played your games, before you played them,
with Cain and Abel, when they made them,
and who will play them to the end
with the last child, and his last friend.
You do not know her name, nor will,
but you may hear, when all is still,
between the trample of this verse
a quiet footstep that is hers.
PREFACE
The reason why this book is verse
(and nothing, I admit, is worse)
is that, as every schoolboy knows,
it takes much longer to write prose.
P.S.
If someone tries to make you learn it,
just take the beastly book, and burn it.
INTRODUCTION
I
They tell me, children,
you have some
fugitive Elysium
where, while your baffled
elders pass
through what to them is
common grass,
you walk in fields,
where never fell
or