Did Shakespeare go to university

To ensure his place in immortality?

Did Gray possess a PHD

When he sat in Stoke Poges cemetery?

Did Hardy feel the need to blush

At the unqualified talent of "The Darkling Thrush"

Did Kipling require an honours degree

To see his star rise permanently?

Did Masefield boast some intellectual score

To write of the sea and so much more?

In the realm of passing poetical inanity

They reflected the world and all humanity -.

Taking the gift of simply being

And moulding it into something far-seeing;

Crafting thoughts into words sublime

That stand the merciless test of time.

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