Social Commentaries
To a German
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Social Commentaries
You think all liquor must be weak if clear,
Find wit in Goethe, miss it in Voltaire.
Your beer has plenty both of malt and hop,
But of the bright and sparkling not a drop.
Cite this poem
MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “To a German.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/203/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “To a German.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/203/.
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