Four Quatrains Percy Addleshaw Addleshaw, Percy (pseudonym Percy Hemingway) Percy Hemingway Metadata research and editing DVPP Project Team Niemann Janice University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Victoria, BC, Canada

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Four Quatrains Ye cannot cheat the Master of your fate ! Proclaim the goal to which your feet are set, He who knows all is the Compassionate, Often His wisdom prompts Him to forget.
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Why weep for days irrevocably dead, For flaunting hopes in envious battle slain ? The bravest soldier frankly looks ahead, Knowing he dare not fight the past again.
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To-night old poets through the city go, Doors shake and windows rattle at their tread, The empty streets are noisy with the woe Of sad immortals banished to the dead.
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The future lies before us rich with gold, Only the foolish backward gaze and fret : What laughter lurks in stories still untold, What solemn songs await the singer yet ! Percy Hemingway .