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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Outside warm, inside cool]
[I like a good dinner; but none is good]
[B's wine is excellent—but you]
[No banquet's ever to my wish]
[Give me enough of meat and drink]
[For my soul's and body's food]
[Wine, good wine, is an excellent thing]
[Nothing that is not immortal is worth an immortal's care.]
[Clouded mind and sluggish will,—]
[When I am ill, I only long for health]
[The surest test of health is sleep]
[Unnatural chastity, enforced celibacy]
[Mere eating and drinking]
Vegetarianism.
[“There's daily need]
[Wealth can serve special uses,—failing these]
[All should work, and all should play]
[Better a hollow tree in a wood]
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[“Who wrote, tell me true]
“
Who
wrote, tell me true,
The tremendous Review?”
“'Twas
Wilkins
(you know him) did that;
The beast in a hole
With its glare and its growl
Is no tiger, but just a tom-cat.”
Blackberries