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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[More books!—A juggler, so they say]
[The printer and binder have given such a look]
[Great Medium, sufficiently clever to write]
[How clever soever your Book may be]
[Could famous authors' Ghosts get at their books]
To a Writer.
[I have my old Lempriere and new Doctor Smith in the study]
[This is worth noting: wit's controll'd by dulness]
Writing.
Prim.
Book and Author.
PLUS ULTRA.
On a Certain Scientific Writer.
[In ladies' writing if no other aid is]
[Eyebrow, the over-educated man]
Maximilian Gusher.
[Form, subject, given—I'll find the skill]
[Among the tyrannies, the tyranny]
[How earn'st thou scourging, famed Boccaccio?]
[When you account for Hamlet, Monsieur Taine]
[The Teacher lacking truth and lacking love]
[For priests and chieftains, people took of old]
[The Writer's face as Frontispiece display'd]
Books.
[Writing is now an adjunct to “the Trade;”]
Two Visitors to the Printing Exhibition.
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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