THE WORLD WE LAUGH IN 'Sadness, once a favourite pose of poets, is
no longer fashionable. Nowadays melancholy people are looked upon
as depressing.'-The Gentlewoman. Bygone bards in baleful ballads
would betoken Worlds of wretchedness and globes compact of gloom;
Pensive poets of the past have sung or spoken Of the misery of
mortals' daily doom, Of the hearts that are as hard as something
oaken, Of the blossoms that are blighted ere they bloom, Of the
ease with which a lover's vows are broken, And the terrors of the
tomb Now no longer 'tis the minstrel's mawkish fashion To narrate a
tale of melancholy woe, Of some wight whose face was haggard, wan,
and ashen, And who languished in the days of long ago, Who adored,
with pure but unrequited passion, And a heart that was as soft as
any dough, A divine but unsusceptible Circassian Who continued to
say 'No'
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