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- ON BEING ASKED FOR A WAR POEM
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- I THINK it better that in times like these
- A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth
- We have no gift to set a statesman right;
- He has had enough of medding who can please
- A young girl in the indolence of her youth,
- Or an old man upon a winter's night.
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