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To Young Poets, from an Older
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Arts & Sciences
Children ! why pull ye one another's hair ?
May not Callimachus or Bion wear
I A sprig of bay or myrtle they have found
Lying since nightfall on neglected ground ?
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “To Young Poets, from an Older.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/231/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “To Young Poets, from an Older.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/231/.
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