Ballads for the Times (Now first collected,) Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Bartenus, A Thousand Lines, and other poems. By Martin F. Tupper. A new Edition, enlarged and revised |
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AN AUTHOR'S COMPLAINT.
O friends and brothers, judge me not unheard;Make not a man offender for a word:
For often have I noted seeming fault
That harm'd my rhymes, and made my reasons halt,
Whilst all that error was some printer's sloth,
Who scorning rhyme and reason slew them both:
Be ye then liberal to your far-off friend,
Where garbled, guess him; and where maim'd amend;
Trust him for wit, when types have marr'd the word,
And wisdom too, where only blockheads err'd.
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