The Protégé: A Poem (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The dramatist, whose story lacks a hero
Bloody and terrible, goes back to Nero,
Or Tarquin, or Caligula, or Draco -
Names to a tragedy rather ornamental -
When bowie-knives, revolvers and tobacco
Were little known or used; and sentimental
Episodes among the ladies, transpired
After a fashion truly to be admired.
Roman Lucretia covered her disgrace
By self-destruction. She was a heroine;
The proudest and the loveliest of her race,
And very different in her style from mine.
Her's was a noble geneaology,
Plucking its trophies from a family tree;
Mine is bogus, tinseled, and presuming;

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