# Verse by Max Goliard (November 1972)

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/outlook-verse-max-goliard-november-1972>

**Published:** November 1, 1972

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“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan”

## Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure dome decree:

The zoning board got wind of this,

And socked him with a license fee.

## Edna St. Vincent Millay

I burn my candle at both ends

I did the same last night.

Con Ed can pay its dividends,

But can’t supply me light.

## Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I know, I think.

Boise-Cascade Lumber, Inc.

## Matthew Arnold

The sea is calm tonight,

Subdued by an oil slick.

The tide is full, the moon shines bright,

And all of the fish are sick.

## Emily Dickinson

I heard a fly buzz when I died

And can pollution’s fact give:

I was felled by a pesticide,

And the fly was radioactive.

_\[Max Goliard is a pseudonym for one of our regular columnists.— Ed.\]_