The bashful earthquake & other fables and verses . THE SILVER HEN poets sing of lovers woes, And blighted lives and throbs and throesAnd yearnings — goodness only knows Its all a pose. I am a poet too, you know, I too was young once long ago. And wrote such stuff myself, and soI ought to I too found refuge from DespairIn sonnets to Amandas fair White brow or Nells complexion rareOr Titian hair — Wi^W^

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