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Blackberries

by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
 
[epigraph]
 
[dedication]

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[Precious—good manners! for indeed]
 
[Bland with the great, and cool with the small]
 
[Some are so highly polish'd, they display]
 
[French-polishing manners your trade is]
 
[Democracy may]
 
[Mean is the man (so John Bull thinks)]
 
[Old England is the only place]
 
[Not men and women in an Irish street]
 
[The Scotchman is the noblest thing created.]
 
[An Englishman has a country]
 
[Contempt, frivolity]
 
[While we ourselves are seeing and thinking]
 
[To think all you say, is but candour]
 
[One thing I very much admire—]
 
[Say fifty fine things; then let fall]
 
[Go where you're expected—]
 
[“Vile money!” True. Let's have enough]
 
[Who speaks to a crowd]
 
[I dreamt I went to hell one night.]
 
[Intolerance may be, no doubt]
 
[So tangled are we, take any man]
 
[The wise must keep open their eyes]
 
[Clothes will not warm a shape of stone or wood]
 
Sportsman.
 
[All stupid folk are self-complacent too]
 
[No matter how you think, and but little how you act]
 
[A blunder of the high-refined—]
 
[Democrat—Aristocrat—]
 
[Would you treat all you meet as brothers and sisters?]
 
[You'll hear a Tiger growl]
 
[With women and men of all natures and stations]
 
[Society's pretence and prejudice]
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[Democrat—Aristocrat—]

Democrat—Aristocrat—
Lord save us from this! the Devil take that!
Away with all “crats!” we won't be cratted;
And as for Public Opinion—drat it!
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