Category: Literature

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939). Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916.

The Three Hermits

THREE old hermits took the air
By a cold and desolate sea,
First was muttering a prayer,
Second rummaged for a flea;
On a windy stone, the third,                             5
Giddy with his hundredth year,
Sang unnoticed like a bird.
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Thomas Love Peacock. 1785-1866

595. Three Men of Gotham

SEAMEN three! What men be ye?
Gotham's three wise men we be.
Whither in your bowl so free?
To rake the moon from out the sea.
The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine.            5
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21).
VOLUME XVIII. Later National Literature, Part III.

XXV. Scholars.

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