The Archive · 1940

A. REMONSTRANCE

cious gift of genuine worth baubles as of old! grovelling quest of fame untold your priceless right of birth For tinsel phantoms in their shining girth, But let mine earnest plea its view unfold. he man of teeming brain and lofty mind; Though plainly clad, the world may move, and Not merely joy. but fame and happiness That will not cringe to glittering garb or dress Yet in the plenitude of strength prevail Where pompousness bedecked would surely fail

3, M. T.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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