Excerpt from Shylock Reasons With Mr. Chesterton and Other Poems

Only this - that when I've done with wearing
Gold words upon my heart and reaching after
My immortality, I shall be hearing
Then, and long afterwards (be sure!) your laughter.

Only this - that when I come to sleeping
And later men appraise me in the quarrels
Of poets and the bays, tell them I'm keeping
No bays, but at my heart a lover's laurels

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