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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Earthborn, in earthly things much sport I find]
[Other men, we think]
[How short is the life of a man!]
[New things happen every day]
[Man's life is not too happy at the best]
[The cruellest of animals is Man]
[If too presumptuous 'twere to pray]
[What bodily and mental fuss]
[How grave (the child thinks) deep and wise]
[Just at the age when a man is clearest and firmest in mind]
[O were I but rid of these ties]
[What hinders me, you ask, to do my best?]
[Clever Youth of acquisitive turn]
[The Spirit said “Be on my side]
Dead Salt.
[I cannot see, but still I can conceive]
[O the swarm of trifles]
[How obey, yet be autocrat still?]
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Blackberries
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[Clever Youth of acquisitive turn]
Clever
Youth of acquisitive turn,
From an idle poet deign to learn;
If you want to be rich and praised in your day,
What fits the time you must do and say,
And carefully shun to say or do
What you deepliest know to be right and true.
Blackberries