English Verse

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    On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.
    —Oliver Cromwell’s Soldiers. Address, 1647, to the English Parliament. “Humble Representation.”

    In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)