Robinson

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    But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
    “Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
    Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
    Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    He never told us what he was,
    Or what mischance, or other cause,
    Had banished him from better days
    To play the Prince of Castaways.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)