Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Lyres and Liars



“O, let me twang my lyre for you,”
     Said I to her in times of passion;
I was a poet, poor but true,
     And she a child of wealth and fashion.
She looked, her ripe, red lips ajar,
     Then answered me: (O, may she rue it!)
“You poets all such liars are
     You music has a false ring to it.”



Feb. 17, 1910




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