Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]

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Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]
Author
Savage, Philip Henry, 1868-1899
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Boston: Small, Maynard, and Company
1900
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"Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD0829.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.

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XXI

TO A BULL-FROG

THOU hoarse Aristophanic mime, Grotesque Silenus of the slime, That dar'st to lift a comic voice Where thrushes worship and rejoice,
When I would build, apart from space, A simple shrine with simple grace, And lift the walls and arches there Of all that's high-distilled and fair,

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God knows, who is the architect Of all I summon and reject, Thy mask is there, and with the choir Thy hoary bass-note will aspire.
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