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Poetry
The Weeping Philosopher
by Andrew Belsey
“I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.” – Merchant of Venice
Bring on my tears with noble Plato’s work
But I’ll have none of Aristotle’s physic
For though I feel as old as Edmund Burke
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