Inscriptions (Of Poets And Poetry)
Poet, a truce to your song! Have you heard the heart sing? Like a brook among trees, Like the humming of bees, Like the ripple of wine: Had you heard, would you stay Blowing bubbles so long? You have ears for the spheres - Have you heard the heart sing? * * * * * Have you loved the good books of the world, - And written none? Have you loved the great poet, - And burnt your little rhyme? 'O be my friend, and teach me to be thine.' * * * * * By many hands the work of God is done, Swart toil, pale thought, flushed dream, he spurneth none: Yea! and the weaver of a little rhyme Is seen his worker in his own full time.
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