“Wisdom made him old and wary
Banishing the Lords of Faery.”
"Babylon".
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
Context: Wisdom made him old and wary
Banishing the Lords of Faery.
Wisdom made a breach and battered
Babylon to bits: she scattered
To the hedges and ditches
All our nursery gnomes and witches.
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