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Like A Pale Martyr In His Shirt Of Fire. -- Alexander Smith (1830-1867) -- A Life Drama, Sc.
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Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.
-- Alexander Smith (1830-1867)
-- A Life Drama, Sc. ii
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A poem round and perfect as a star. -- Alexander Smith (1830-1867) -- A Life Drama, Sc. ii
In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.
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The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative
And I did laugh sans intermission An hour by his dial....