Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Masque of Poets: Including Guy Vernon, a Novelette in Verse
IN G! Sing of what? The world is full of song; And all the singing seems but echoed notes Of the great masters who, when souls were strong, Rolled sturdy paeans from rejoicing throats.
Or worse than echoes, schemes of tinkling sound, The pilfered phrases of the melodist, A bastard music, a tenth Muse discrowned, A light bewildered in a blinding mist.
I would not dabble on the brink of power, Shape airy nothings, dreaming of a dream, Chime word with word, and pipe to catch the hour, But plunge, aim-certain, in the living stream.
Give me a theme to sing in man's behoof, As full of purpose as my faith, 0 God!
Red with our life-blood, firm in warp and woof, A homely product of the common sod.
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