Arts & Sciences
A Royal Present to a Learned Professor
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Arts & Sciences
George sent the skull of Robert Bruce
To Blumenbach. " Sire ! of what use,"
Said Blumenbach, " is Bruce's skull ?
And who was Bruce ? now, were it full
Of hock or (better) old tokay,
I'd drink your health some jolly day
And never mind whose scalp it was.
But toss it off and let it pass."
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “A Royal Present to a Learned Professor.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/204/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Royal Present to a Learned Professor.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/204/.
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