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My Cuckoo Clock

 I bought a cuckoo clock
 And glad was I
To hear its tick and tock,
 Its dulcet cry.
But Jones, whose wife is young
 And pretty too,
Winced when that bird gave tongue:
 Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

I have a lady friend
 Whom I would wed,
For dalliance should end
 In bridal bed.
Until the thought occurred:
 Can she be true?
And then I heard that bird:
 Cuckoo!...Read more of this...

Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College

 Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
That crown the watery glade,
Where grateful Science still adores
Her Henry's holy shade;
And ye, that from the stately brow
Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below
Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey,
Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among
Wanders the hoary Thames along
His silver-winding way.

Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade,
Ah fields beloved in vain,
Where once my careless childhood...Read more of this...

The Bliss Of Ignorance

 When Jack took Nell into his arms
He knew he acted ill,
And thought as he enjoyed her charms
Of his fiancée Jill.
"Poor dear," he sighed, "she dreams of me,
I shouldn't act like this;
But after all, she cannot see,
And ignorance is bliss."

Yet Jill at that same moment was
In Fred's embrace close caught,
And just a little sad because
Of sweetheart Jack she thought.
"Poor dear,"...Read more of this...

Marginalia

 Here is a silence I had not hoped for

This side of paradise, I am an old believer

In nature’s bounty as God’s grace

To us poor mortals, fretting and fuming

At frustrated lust or the scent of fame 

Coming too late to make a difference

Blue with white vertebrae of cloud forms

Riming the spectrum of green dark of poplars

Lined like soldiers, paler the...Read more of this...

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