POEMS.
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Idle, good-looking, negatively wise,
Lazy in action, plausible in speech;
Favor he found in many women's eyes,
And valued most that which was hard to reach.
Few are both true and tender, and he grew,
In time, a little tenderer than true.
Lazy in action, plausible in speech;
Favor he found in many women's eyes,
And valued most that which was hard to reach.
Few are both true and tender, and he grew,
In time, a little tenderer than true.
Knowing much evil, half-regretting good,
As we regret a childish impulse—lost,
Weaned with knowledge best not understood,
Bored with the disenchantment that it cost;
But, in conclusion, with no failings hid:
A gentleman, no matter what he did.
As we regret a childish impulse—lost,
Weaned with knowledge best not understood,
Bored with the disenchantment that it cost;
But, in conclusion, with no failings hid:
A gentleman, no matter what he did.
C. D.
