Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

H . 0 . Meredith . But who it was had sowed the seed , Who made it blossom , who Taught each of us the other 's need I know no more than you . THE AGES OF MAN . W E children in our crowded home W Had little food to eat, Our breeding was the right to roam And scavenge in the street ; My brothers died , my sister died , And I grew all accurst , With pigeon breast, with surly pride, With hunger and with thirst. When I was twenty years of age I earned my pound a week , I ate and drank the princely wage And almost I grew sleek : And then I married me a wife Who made ten shillings more ; So rich we were we thought that life Was easy for the poor . 108