Bert Leston Taylor Poems

Behold the mighty dinosaur,
Famous in prehistoric lore,
Not only for his weight and length,
But for his intellectual strength.
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When quacks with pills political would dope us,
When politics absorbs the livelong day,
I like to think about that star Canopus,
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Across the places deep and dim,
And places brown and bare,
It reaches to the planet s rim
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In summer I’m disposed to shirk,
As summer is no time to work.
In winter inspiration dies
For lack of out-door exercise.
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I cannot tell you how I love
The canvases o ...
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When as galoshed my Julia goes,
Unbuckled all from top to toes,
How swift the poem becometh prose!
And when I cast mine eyes and see
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Whan that Aprilly with hise shoures soote
The droghte of March had perced to the roote,
I druv a motor thro' Aprilly's bliz
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Time's the Master Critic,
Only he can say
What, among these verses,
Good and bad and worse is --
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Now fare they forth to battle,
And none for peace shall sue;
And ye who sneer and cavil --
They fight your battle, too.
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We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for
the Lord,
And all we ask to stead us is a blessing on
each sword;
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