<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357443" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad of Captious Critics</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stuffed with tradition and trammels of yore,<br>Cramped in their studies, they sneer and scold<br>At the strange, new passions young hearts would pour<br>Thro' a sunlit land, and a tale unfold<br>Of youth's ambition - new-minted gold<br>Fresh from life's furnace, all aglow <br>With none of its worth are their hearts cajoled,<br>If it waken no echo of things they know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their minds close cluttered with olden lore,<br>Their praise for the new is charity doled;<br>Their memories, clogged with a moss-grown store<br>Of dead men's wisdom, naught also may hold,<br>The flight of an eaglet, overhold,<br>Is an impudent thing, so their judgements go;<br>And the song of a bush bird leaves them cold,<br>If it wakes no echo of things they know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Songs have sprung from this virgin shore,<br>Tales that are turned from an unworn mould,<br>These be but follies that grieve them sore <br>Rhymes the old troubadours have not trolled.<br>Themes must be borrowed from urn of old;<br>For originality irks them so,<br>And the voice of the bush must be controlled,<br>If it wakes no echo of things they know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ENVOI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prints - aye, and reprints, tales retold.<br>Shadows - for these do their plaudits grow;<br>But the bard stays dumb, and the book unsold<br>If it waken no echo of things they know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357443" data-title="Ballad of Captious Critics de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Stuffed with tradition and trammels of yore, Cramped in their studies, they sneer and scold At the strange, new passions young hearts would pour Thro' a sunlit land, and a tale unfold Of youth's ambition - new-minted gold Fresh from life's furnace..."></div> </div> </div>

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