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First Line: Still must the poet as of old
Last Line: As there are flowers and you and song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Sisters


Still must the poet as of old,
In barren attic bleak and cold,
Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to
Such things as flowers and song and you;

Still as of his old being give
In Beauty's name, while she may live,
Beauty that may not die as long
As there are flowers and you and song.





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