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Rod Quinn - ZaunköniG - 01.05.2012

Rod Quinn


How many years, how many years have fled,
Since in the cool dim parlour sat the three -
Lawson and I and, lounging easily,
The beaming indolent poet! Then instead
Of labouring weary at the mill, we led
The careless life of wanderers, frank and free,
And had the wealth of a new-found world in fee
How pitiless time gropes on with tireless tread!

A glass was raised, and golden liquor glowed
When a ray from summer streets came piercing in;
He drank the sunlight in the gloomy place!
And now I know the magic drink bestowed
A vital golden splendour on Roderic Quinn,
Which fumbling fingers of Time will scarce efface.