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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,
Student of our sweet English tongue,
Read out my words at night, alone:
I was a poet, I was young.

— James Elroy Flecker

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The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

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Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow
Across that angry or that glimmering sea.

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A ship, an isle, a sickle moon —
With few but with how splendid stars.

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