A Cavalier's Toast Poem by Madison Julius Cawein

A Cavalier's Toast

Rating: 5.0


Some drink to Friendship, some to Love,
Through whom the world is fair, perdie!
But I to one these others prove,
Who leaps 'mid lions for a glove,
Or dies to set another free
I drink to Loyalty.

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No dagger his, no cloak and mask,
Free-faced he stands so all may see;
Let Friendship set him any task,
Or Love reward he does not ask,
The deed is done whate'er it be
So here's to Loyalty.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ratnakar Mandlik 08 June 2020

The towering height of loyalty making even friendship and love dwarf, before it, wonderfully reiterated.10++

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John Popoola 08 June 2020

Nice poem, praising an undermined virtue.

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* Sunprincess * 22 January 2016

............a beautiful theme, loyalty is most admirable ★ Let Friendship set him any task, Or Love reward he does not ask, The deed is done whate'er it be So here's to Loyalty.

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