Is It?

You could hear the hoofbeats pound as they raced across the ground and the clatter of the wheels as they spun round and round
 
He galloped into market Street his badge upon his chest
They called him Ernie and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.


I actually wrote a complete spoof version of that entitled "Ernie, he was the best Ram tight end in the West" about Ernie Conwell. Still not sure if I should be ashamed or proud of it. Mike Carlson disowned me on the spot when he read it .
 
Loitering with a vacant eye
Along the Grecian gallery,
And brooding on my heavy ill,
I met a statue standing still.
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From far, from eve and morning
And yon twelve winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me,
Blew hither, here am I.
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Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows,
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went,
And cannot come again.
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Which poet and where is his statue that have these lines?
 
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono
Wearing bracelets of smoke, naked of understanding
Nicotine smears, long, long dried tears, invisible tears
Safe in my own words, learning from my own words
Cruel joke, cruel joke
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono
A morning mare rides, in the starless shutters of my eyes
The spirit of a misplaced childhood is rising to speak his mind
To this orphan of heartbreak, disillusioned and scarred
A refugee, refugee.
 
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