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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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Grubb.
An Incalculable Man.
Squirmley.
Mellita.
A Distinguished Man.
[I loved A. B. yet my praise was cool.]
Promptus.
Long Shadow.
Dictatorius.
Veterator.
Profit and Loss.
Dorr.
Corpulentus.
Jactator.
Dives.
Flibb.
[In counting “ruin'd” men, we seldom guess]
[The Chief Malefactors of the time]
[Louche plays the honest and high-minded man]
[“The Devil take him!”—nay, Old Nick]
George.
Donans.
Tumidus.
Frank Rascal.
Jay.
Grunch.
Brisk.
Click.
Tompkins.
Crœsulus.
On a Tradesman.
[“Adulteration is a form of Competition”]
To an Egg-Merchant.
Brown and Green.
To my Friend Edward.
To my Friend Matthew.
To my Friend Daniel.
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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