The Wealthy Dolt

The wealthy dolt for wit and sense

Though college’d and begrammared

Just as a nail that never stirs

No further than it’s hammered

And when he’s made complete to act

Of wisdom’s [face] a farce on

In making nothing else the fact

Is that he’ll make a parson

Pet MS A42 p104

Unpublished fragment

[For Julian and the 'Clare' students from City College, Plymouth]