Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . on for the blowThat robbed one mortal of his breath. [212] Digitized by Microsoft® Fame What is this Fame? tis but a nameBandied about the world a must be sweet when men deem meetTo risk their lives obtaining it. But as for me, Ill let it beTo come or go as it sees fit,Contented with my little shareIf it with me will bide a bit. And yet—^I want a little more, I hardly know what it should be, Perhaps a smile, perhaps a sigh, Or something to catch the passing eye Writ on my tomb, that this will say *On earth he lived—^he did not merely sta
Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . on for the blowThat robbed one mortal of his breath. [212] Digitized by Microsoft® Fame What is this Fame? tis but a nameBandied about the world a must be sweet when men deem meetTo risk their lives obtaining it. But as for me, Ill let it beTo come or go as it sees fit,Contented with my little shareIf it with me will bide a bit. And yet—^I want a little more, I hardly know what it should be, Perhaps a smile, perhaps a sigh, Or something to catch the passing eye Writ on my tomb, that this will say *On earth he lived—^he did not merely stay. (Revised September, 1914.) [213] Digitized by Microsoft® Rhyme and Reason I find those verses are the worst Where all the rhymes are thought out first, And limping Reason hobbles in To save it from poetic sin. Some even say that what is meant Is but the fruit of accident, And they are right, for half the time We often see the tyrant Rhyme Puts poets in this paltry plight, That, starting out to say one thing, The very opposite they [214] Digitized by Microsoft® An Excuse These lines treat not of bread and butter,No fool is sent home on a shutter, No Pippa are never made to feel They are but asses;And painful mental vivisectionMay be avoided by theyre defective, that I own,For which defects I make atoneBy having ready this retort—Ive made them very, very short.
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