Arts & Sciences
An Old Custom Still Extant
From My Lyrical Life, Second Series (1889)
Arts & Sciences
A Poet sought the golden prize
For Wife and Child, till, out of breath,
He gained it — when the Coins, in death,
"Were laid upon his sightless eyes!
In winning bread for Child and Wife,
His death was ten times worth his life.
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Codex Note
From the section "Personal" of My Lyrical Life, Second Series (1889).
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Massey, Gerald. “An Old Custom Still Extant.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/229/.
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Massey, Gerald. “An Old Custom Still Extant.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/229/.
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