Edwin Arlington Robinson: Miniver Cheevy
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Miniver Cheevy

1869-1935


Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
         Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
He wept that he was ever born,
         And he had reasons.

Miniver loved the days of old
         When swords were bright and steeds were prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
         Would set him dancing.

Miniver sighed for what was not,
         And dreamed, and rested from his labors;
He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot,
         And Priam's neighbors.

Miniver mourned the ripe renown
         That made so many a name so fragrant;
He mourned Romance, now on the town,
         And Art, a vagrant.

Miniver loved the Medici,
         Albeit he had never seen one;
He would have sinned incessantly
         Could he have been one.

Miniver cursed the commonplace
         And eyed a khaki suit with loathing;
He missed the mediaeval grace
         Of iron clothing.

Miniver scorned the gold he sought,
         But sore annoyed was he without it;
Miniver thought, and thought, and thought,
         And thought about it.

Miniver Cheevy, born too late,
         Scratched his head and kept on thinking;
Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
         And kept on drinking.


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