An Answer to Frances Cornford

 Why do you rush through the fields in trains, 
Guessing so much and so much. 
Why do you flash through the flowery meads, 
Fat-head poet that nobody reads; 
And why do you know such a frightful lot 
About people in gloves and such?

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