The Bards

The Bards   Walter de la Mare

Stuff and Nonsense (1927)

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My aged friend, Miss Wilkinson,
Whose mother was a Lambe,
Saw Wordsworth once, and Coleridge, too,
One morning in her p'ram'.*

Birdlike the bards stooped over her -
Like fledgling in a nest;
And Wordsworth said, 'Thou harmless babe!'
And Coleridge was impressed.

The pretty thing gazed up and smiled,
And softly murmured 'Coo!'
William was then aged sixty-four
And Samuel sixty-two.

               * This was a three-wheeled vehicle
                  Of iron and of wood;
                  It had a leather apron,
                  But it hadn't any hood.

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