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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Life, after all, is here, and so are we]
[“No absolute right or wrong: what test?”]
[Have Heaven and Earth given a glad hour to thee?]
[Nature's no niggard; if the truth were known]
[When living rightly here below]
[The highest-natured men—the Best—]
[Silent the Earth whirls on her way]
[Quick smiles, sharp tears]
[There's plenty of credit in life at first]
[Good luck and bad luck come to all]
[Good luck's no use unless you can]
[Good Luck, the merry rambler, shuns]
[Love first, Work second]
[Flung out of Dreamland into cold harsh Day]
[For bodily or mental food]
[The healthy man loves life; you love it not]
[Let not man, ignorant and weak]
[To what good end shall ear be lent]
[In every trouble, say—]
[How is it that Man's mere phantasy]
[How easily go things astray!]
[In the midst of labour and folly and strife]
[“All away?”]
Positive truth.
[Be not impatient, O Soul]
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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?
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