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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET IN PRAISE OF TACT, by WILLIAM MCFEE
First Line: Earth hath not anything to show more fair,' said wordsworth
Last Line: The trolley cars upon the jersey shore.
Subject(s): Loitering; New York City; Police; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple
First Line: Earth hath not anything to show more fair,' said wordsworth
Last Line: The trolley cars upon the jersey shore.
Subject(s): Loitering; New York City; Police; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple
"Earth hath not anything to show more fair,"
Said Wordsworth, standing on Westminster Bridge.
(Loafing, of course, the poetizing midge!)
Strange that some Cop did not call "Move on there!"
As he would do should any poet dare
To loiter on the Drive in early morn,
Ere the blue velvet darkness hath been torn
By Phoebus into streams of crystal air.
Never would Cop magnanimously coil
His portly presence in some friendly door,
Or hesitate the magic hour to spoil
While Wordsworth watched (and thought of Thames no more)
Those spangled harbingers of daily toil --
The trolley cars upon the Jersey shore.
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