<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=545834" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At The Sign Of The Lyre</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(To the Memory of Austin Dobson)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Master of the lyric inn<br>Where the rarer sort so long<br>Drew the rein, to 'scape the din<br>Of the cymbal and the gong,<br>Topers of the classic bin,--<br>Oporto, sherris and tokay,<br>Muscatel, and beaujolais--<br>Conning some old Book of Airs,<br>Lolling in their Queen Anne chairs--<br>Catch or glee or madrigal,<br>Writ for viol or virginal;<br>Or from France some courtly tune,<br>Gavotte, ridotto, rigadoon;<br>(Watteau and the rising moon);<br>Ballade, rondeau, triolet,<br>Villanelle or virelay,<br>Wistful of a statelier day,<br>Gallant, delicate, desire:<br>Where the Sign swings of the Lyre,<br>Garlands droop above the door,<br>Thou, dear Master, art no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! about thy portals throng<br>Sorrowing shapes that loved thy song:<br>_Taste_ and _Elegance_ are there,<br>The modish Muses of Mayfair,<br>_Wit_, _Distinction_, _Form_ and _Style_,<br>_Humour_, too, with tear and smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fashion sends her butterflies--<br>Pretty laces to their eyes,<br>Ladies from St. James's there<br>Step out from the sedan chair;<br>Wigged and scented dandies too<br>Tristely wear their sprigs of rue;<br>Country squires are in the crowd,<br>And little Phyllida sobs aloud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then stately shades I seem to see,<br>Master, to companion thee;<br>Horace and Fielding here are come<br>To bid thee to Elysium.<br>Last comes one all golden: Fame<br>Calls thee, Master, by thy name,<br>On thy brow the laurel lays,<br>Whispers low--'In After Days.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Le+Gallienne">Richard Le Gallienne</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=545834" data-title="At The Sign Of The Lyre de Richard Le Gallienne" data-description="(To the Memory of Austin Dobson) Master of the lyric inn Where the rarer sort so long Drew the rein, to 'scape the din Of the cymbal and the gong, Topers of the classic bin,-- Oporto, sherris and tokay, Muscatel, and beaujolais-- Conning some old..."></div> </div> </div>

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