Love, Fear and Hate and Childish Toys <br />Are here discreetly blent; <br />Admire, you ladies, read, you boys, <br />My Country Sentiment. <br /> <br />But Kate says, 'Cut that anger and fear, <br />True love's the stuff we need! <br />With laughing children and the running deer <br />That makes a book indeed.' <br /> <br />Then Tom, a hard and bloody chap, <br />Though much beloved by me, <br />'Robert, have done with nursery pap, <br />Write like a man,' says he. <br /> <br />Hate and Fear are not wanted here, <br />Nor Toys nor Country Lovers, <br />Everything they took from my new poem book <br />But the flyleaf and the covers.<br /><br />Robert Graves<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-first-review/
