The Church Porch

Am not I,” said the fool, “poor and miserable?”
“Nay, thou art both,” the wise man said,
“If thou deem’st me so.”
But the fool, he answered not,
And the wise man went his way.

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English poet of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Known for "Goblin Market" and devotional verse of exquisite craftsmanship.

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