You bother me for coin, and I've got none, And so, you see, my time and yours are lost: Well, then! I'll here propose t'ye, free of cost, A plan, fair both for Debitor and Dun. Attend! - When one has got no money one Can pay no money - that's as plain 's a post. So, you shall cease to dun me, even in fun, And I, de Vautre cote, - like a ghost - Shall wait till you speak first. Thus, 'tis quite clear, Peace will subsist between us, - and what more Dare you desire? It is a horrid sin Eternally to teaze and bait and bore A poor Pilgarlic of a Sonneteer, Whose only crime is that he has no Tin! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN by HAYDEN CARRUTH IF DEATH IS KIND by SARA TEASDALE HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |