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Alas, the joy, the sorrow, and the scorn, That clothed thy life with hopes and sins and fears,

And gave thee stones for bread and tares for corn

And plume-plucked gaol-birds for thy starveling peers,

Till death clipt close their flight with shameful shears;

Till shifts came short and loves were hard to hire,

When lilt of song nor twitch of twangling wire

Could buy thee bread or kisses; when light fame

Spurned like a ball and haled through brake and briar,

Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name!

Poor splendid wings so frayed and soiled and torn!

Poor kind wild eyes so dashed with light quick tears!

Poor perfect voice, most blithe when most forlorn,

That rings athwart the sea whence no man steers,

Like joy-bells crossed with death-bells

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