Poem by Louise Imogen Guiney

A Talisman

TAKE Temperance to thy breast,
While yet is the hour of choosing,
As arbitress exquisite
Of all that shall thee betide;
For better than fortune’s best
Is mastery in the using,
And sweeter than anything sweet
The art to lay it aside!

1. The Vigil-at-Arms
2. When on the Marge of Evening
3. Strikers in Hyde Park
4. For Izaak Walton
5. Valediction: R. L. S., 1894

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