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The Poet
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| The Poet written by William Henry Davies |
| From "Later Days", 1925 |
When I went down past Charing Cross,
A plain and simple man was I;
I might have been no more than air,
Unseen by any mortal eye.
But, Lord in Heaven, had I the power
To show my inward spirit there,
Then what a pack of human hounds
Had hunted me, to strip me bare.
A human pack, ten thousand strong,
All in full cry to bring me down;
All greedy for my magic robe,
All crazy for my burning crown.
| This work is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. |
