Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/The Poet's Prayer

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A roundel. First printed in The Cambridge Review, 4 June 1891, and then included as the first of "Two Roundels" in the third and subsequent editions of Lapsus Calami.

1789872The Poet's Prayer1891J.K.S.

To buy my book—if you will be so kind—
Is all I ask of you; and not to look
What fruit lies hid beneath the azure rind:
To buy my book.

This for her hymn-book Rosalind mistook,
When worshipping with yokel, maid, and hind;
Neaera read it in a flowery nook,
And gave her loose curls to the wanton wind.
For this her grammar Sylvia once forsook,
Of you I only ask—you will not mind?—
To buy my book.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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