<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478619" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A New England Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though skilled in Latin and in Greek,<br>And earning fifty cents a week,<br>Such knowledge, and the income, too,<br>Should teach you better what to do:<br> The meanest drudges, kept in pay,<br> Can pocket fifty cents a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why stay in such a tasteless land,<br>Where all must on a level stand,<br>(Excepting people, at their ease,<br>Who choose the level where they please:)<br> See Irving gone to Britain's court<br> To people of another sort,<br> He will return, with wealth and fame,<br> While Yankees hardly know your name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! he has kissed a Monarch's--hand!<br>Before a prince I see him stand,<br>And with the glittering nobles mix,<br>Forgetting times of seventy-six,<br>While you with terror meet the frown<br>Of Bank Directors of the town,<br> The home-made nobles of our times,<br> Who hate the bard, and spurn his rhymes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why pause?--like Irving, haste away,<br>To England your addresses pay;<br>And England will reward you well,<br> Of British feats, and British arms,<br> The maids of honor, and their charms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear bard, I pray you, take the hint,<br>In England what you write and print,<br>Republished here in shop, or stall,<br>Will perfectly enchant us all:<br> It will assume a different face,<br> And post your name at every place,<br> From splendid domes of first degree<br> Where ladies meet, to sip their tea;<br> From marble halls, where lawyers plead,<br> Or Congress-men talk loud, indeed,<br> To huts, where evening clubs appear,<br> And 'squires resort--to guzzle Beer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Philip+Freneau">Philip Freneau</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=478619" data-title="To A New England Poet de Philip Freneau" data-description="Though skilled in Latin and in Greek, And earning fifty cents a week, Such knowledge, and the income, too, Should teach you better what to do: The meanest drudges, kept in pay, Can pocket fifty cents a day. Why stay in such a tasteless land, Wh..."></div> </div> </div>

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