The iron-mettled voice no more shall ring -
In prowess unmatched, crafty words so bold:
What lethal smack of gracious wit they bore!
Whose sublime wryness, flawed though seemed betimes;
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In this hapless world so dark-
What stays yet for me to see?
Oh! bored and sick I grow each day,
To find such widespread misery....
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Life is but a dream -
With the knell of parting dawn
it breaks; while you sleep!
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I am the old dog, lean lean and frail,
Driven away by his master –
One harsh wintry eve; amid
the lashing wrath of snow and hail …..
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