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Did You Ask Dulcet Rhymes From Me?

DID YOU ASK DULCET RHYMES FROM ME?

DID YOU ask dulcet rhymes from me? Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow,  
 to understand? Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to  
 understand—nor am I now; —What to such as you, anyhow, such a poet as I?  
 —therefore leave my works, And go lull yourself with what you can understand; For I lull nobody—and you will never understand me.
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