I sing no idle songs of dalliance days, No dreams Elysian inspire my rhyming; I have no Celia to enchant my lays, No pipes of pan have set my heart to chiming. I am no wordsmith dripping gems devine Into the golden chalice of a sonnet; If love songs witch you, sclose this book of mine, Waste no time on it.
Yet bring I to my work an eager joy, A lusty love of life and all things human; Still in me leaps the wonder of the boy, A pride in man, a deathless faith in woman. Still red blood calls, still rings the valiant fray; Adventure beacons through the summer gloaming: Oh long and long and long will be the day Ere I come boming!
This earth is ours to love: lute, brush and pen, They are but tongues to tell of life sincerely; The thaumaturgic Day, the might of the men, O God of Scribes, grant us to give them clearly! Grant heart that comes in heart,then all is well. Honey is honey-sweet, however the hiving. Each to his work, his wage at evening bell The strength of stirviving.
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