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HERNANI by GEORGE MEREDITH

Poet Analysis

First Line: CISTERCIANS MIGHT CRACK THEIR SIDES
Last Line: THE HORN OF THE OLD GENTLEMAN!
Subject(s): LOVE; LOVE - LOSS OF; TRAGEDY;

CISTERCIANS might crack their sides
With laughter, and exemption get,
At sight of heroes clasping brides,
And hearing -- O the horn! the horn!
The horn of their obstructive debt!

But quit the stage, that note applies
For sermons cosmopolitan,
Hernani. Have we filched our prize,
Forgetting . . . ? O the horn! the horn!
The horn of the Old Gentleman!



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