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. Florentin
2. Writ in My Lord Clarendon’s “History of the Rebellion”
3. Vergniaud in the Tumbril
4. A Seventeenth-Century Song
5. For Izaak Walton

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