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Blackberries

by William Allingham

Allingham, William (1824-1889)

[epigraph]

[dedication]

[section]

[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]

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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[You'll hear a Tiger growl]

You'll hear a Tiger growl,
But you can't beware of a Fool,
You'll hear a Serpent hiss;
A Fool is worse than this.
A Fool when you espy,
With trembling hasten by.

A Fool within your house
Is deadly dangerous.
A Fool, though good and civil,
Is darkness and the devil!