POSTHUMOUS POEMS
Fame flutters in front of pretension
Whose flag-staff is flagrantly fine,
And it cannot be needful to mention
That such beyond question is mine.
It's plain as a newspaper leader
That a rhymester who scribbles like me
May feel perfectly sure that his reader
Is sick of the sea.[1]
Whose flag-staff is flagrantly fine,
And it cannot be needful to mention
That such beyond question is mine.
It's plain as a newspaper leader
That a rhymester who scribbles like me
May feel perfectly sure that his reader
Is sick of the sea.[1]
- ↑ Upon the reverse of one of the leaves of the Manuscript of By the North Sea Swinburne has written these last four lines and headed them "The Ghost of it."
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