Poet And Peer

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Poet And Peer by Robert William Service

 They asked the Bard of Ayr to dine;
The banquet hall was fit and fine,
 With gracing it a Lord;
The poet came; his face was grim
To find the place reserved for him
 Was at the butler's board.

So when the gentry called him in,
He entered with a knavish grin
 And sipped a glass of wine;
But when they asked would he recite
Something of late he'd chanced to write
 He ettled to decline.

Then with a sly, sardonic look
He opened up a little book
 Containing many a gem;
And as they sat in raiment fine,
So smug and soused with rosy wine,
 This verse he read to them.

'You see yon birkie caw'ed a Lord,
 Who struts and stares an' a' that,
Though hundreds worship at his word
 He's but a coof for a' that.
For a' that and a' that,
 A man's a man for a' that.

He pointed at that portly Grace
Who glared with apoplectic face,
 While others stared with gloom;
Then having paid them all he owed,
Burns, Bard of Homespun, smiled and strode
 Superbly from the room.

Form: Narrative

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