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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Precious—good manners! for indeed]
[Bland with the great, and cool with the small]
[Some are so highly polish'd, they display]
[French-polishing manners your trade is]
[Democracy may]
[Mean is the man (so John Bull thinks)]
[Old England is the only place]
[Not men and women in an Irish street]
[The Scotchman is the noblest thing created.]
[An Englishman has a country]
[Contempt, frivolity]
[While we ourselves are seeing and thinking]
[To think all you say, is but candour]
[One thing I very much admire—]
[Say fifty fine things; then let fall]
[Go where you're expected—]
[“Vile money!” True. Let's have enough]
[Who speaks to a crowd]
[I dreamt I went to hell one night.]
[Intolerance may be, no doubt]
[So tangled are we, take any man]
[The wise must keep open their eyes]
[Clothes will not warm a shape of stone or wood]
Sportsman.
[All stupid folk are self-complacent too]
[No matter how you think, and but little how you act]
[A blunder of the high-refined—]
[Democrat—Aristocrat—]
[Would you treat all you meet as brothers and sisters?]
[You'll hear a Tiger growl]
[With women and men of all natures and stations]
[Society's pretence and prejudice]
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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