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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Now, little Book, go thy ways!]
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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