To a Skilled Versemaker

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To a Skilled Versemaker

IN rhyme you tell your tale, at mickle cost!

With better thrift, in prose, the task were

done.

For what is here achieved?—A novel lost,

And not a poem won.

Title
To a Skilled Versemaker
Identifier
greatwar_watsonretro026
Item sets
Retrogression and Other Poems
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