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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Where is the wise and just man? where]
[Fair houses in my walks I see]
[They are my friends]
[We only touch by surfaces]
[One with one, not overheard]
Fidelity.
[I am not shock'd by failings in my friend]
[For thinking, one; for converse, two, no more]
[It is not you, my Foe, I fear]
[From the little that's shown]
[In argument it oft betides]
[Is it true]
[Solitude is very sad]
[Little care I for the faults of the small]
[Limited each is: but—O dear!]
[O great one! O mighty one!—]
[Unless you are growing wise and good]
[His way of life was zig-zag still]
[Well for the man whom sickness makes more tender]
[The spiteful dart]
[The weak have no opinions; and the strong]
[By making our trials and sorrows known]
[Some win our gratitude merely by living]
[A hope that we are taught to prize]
[“Old Friend?”—For many years, I wis]
[While friends we were, the hot debates]
[If he draw you aside from your proper end]
[Dear Friend, so much admired, so oft desired]
[I'll make it part of my life's plan]
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Blackberries
[O bounce! O flea! how sharp you bite!]
O bounce
! O flea! how sharp you bite!
I think far more of you to-night
Than of aught else beneath the moon,
Ay, or beyond it. But how soon
I shall forget!—ev'n should I fail
To catch you on my fierce thumb-nail.
Blackberries