Poet Andrew Lang

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Gainsborough Ghosts'in The Grosvenor Gallery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEDEEFEF GHGHHIHI JAJAAKAK LHMHHLHB

They smile upon the western wallA
The lips that laughed an age agoneB
The fops the dukes the beauties allA
Le Brun that sang and Carr that shoneB
We gaze with idle eyes we conB
The faces of an elder timeC
Alas and OURS is flitting onB
Oh moral for an empty rhymeC
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Think when the tumult and the crowdD
Have left the solemn rooms and chillE
When dilettanti are not loudD
When lady critics are not shrillE
Ah think how strange upon the stillE
Dim air may sound these voices faintF
Once more may Johnson talk his fillE
And fair Dalrymple charm the SaintF
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Of us they speak as we of themG
Like us perchance they criticiseH
Our wit they vote is BrummagemG
Our beauty dim to Devon's eyesH
Their silks and lace our cloth despiseH
Their pumps our boots that pad the mudI
What modern fop with Walpole viesH
With St Leger what modern bloodI
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Ah true we lack the charm the witJ
Our very greatest sure are smallA
And Mr Gladstone is not PittJ
And Garrick comes not when we callA
Yet pass an age and after allA
Even WE may please the folk that lookK
When we are faces on the wallA
And voices in a history bookK
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In Art the statesman yet shall liveL
With collars keen with Roman noseH
To Beauty yet shall Millais giveM
The roses that outlast the roseH
The lords of verse the slaves of proseH
On canvas yet shall seem aliveL
And charm the mob that comes and goesH
And lives inB

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