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Latest revision as of 02:44, 5 June 2014
| Coup de Grace written by Walter de la Mare |
| Poems (1906) | Link to further information |
So Malice sharp'd his pen, and nibbled it,
And leered 'neath faltering eyelids at the flame
Of his calm candle till a notion came,
Coarse, acrid, with a distant hint of wit.
Once more he simmered, and once more he writ
Till not a dash was dull, a comma lame;
Then exquisitely failed to sign his name,
Leaving the world to trace a slug by its spit
Such was the barb, O Keats, (vain tongues would have),
Troubled in its calm flight thy lovely art;
Cankered thy youth, thy faith; abashed the brave,
Untarnishable sweetness of thy heart:
How should these dullards dream they winged the dart
That pierced thee, silent, in th' unanswering grave!
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