I CANNOT praise you, sweet; my verse
Limps lamely on from bad to worse.
Farewell, most fair farewell, most cruel !
Shall I, to heal my wounded heart,
Indite an epigram, or start
A novel creed, or fight a duel
For you, fair queen of fans and frills ;
Or settle down and pay my bills,
And, like a decent Philistine,
Ignore the name of Columbine ;
Or, drifting idly round the world,
Anchor at last, with canvas furled,
In some dim port undreamt of yet,
And learn, forgotten, to forget ?
(Justin H. McCarthy)
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