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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Where is the wise and just man? where]
[Fair houses in my walks I see]
[They are my friends]
[We only touch by surfaces]
[One with one, not overheard]
Fidelity.
[I am not shock'd by failings in my friend]
[For thinking, one; for converse, two, no more]
[It is not you, my Foe, I fear]
[From the little that's shown]
[In argument it oft betides]
[Is it true]
[Solitude is very sad]
[Little care I for the faults of the small]
[Limited each is: but—O dear!]
[O great one! O mighty one!—]
[Unless you are growing wise and good]
[His way of life was zig-zag still]
[Well for the man whom sickness makes more tender]
[The spiteful dart]
[The weak have no opinions; and the strong]
[By making our trials and sorrows known]
[Some win our gratitude merely by living]
[A hope that we are taught to prize]
[“Old Friend?”—For many years, I wis]
[While friends we were, the hot debates]
[If he draw you aside from your proper end]
[Dear Friend, so much admired, so oft desired]
[I'll make it part of my life's plan]
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Blackberries
[Suppose we tried the simple plan, to say]
Suppose
we tried the simple plan, to say
No lies at all, for just one single day.
Would houses crumble into heaps of sand,
Fields wither, sky fall, ocean whelm the land?
Blackberries