Chapter II.

His mother could for him as cradle set
Her husband’s rusty iron corselet;
Whose jangling sound could hush her babe to rest,
That never plain’d of his uneasy nest;
Then did he dream of dreary wars at hand,
And woke, and fought, and won, ere he could stand.--HALL’S SATIRES

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English poet best known for his free translation of Omar Khayyám's "Rubáiyát," one of the most popular poems in English.

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