Living
On the Fast-Day
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, IV: Poems and Plays, ed. E. V. Lucas
Living
To name a Day for general prayer and fast
Is surely worse than of no sort of use;
For you may see with grief, from first to last
On fast-days people of all ranks are loose.
Cite this poem
MLA
Lamb, Charles. “On the Fast-Day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lamb/157/.
Chicago
Lamb, Charles. “On the Fast-Day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lamb/157/.
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