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Blackberries

by William Allingham
 
 

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103

[Bard makes not Poem, not the shortest one]

Bard makes not Poem, not the shortest one;
The Poem makes the Bard; he writes it down;
Now ill, now middling, now a good deal better,
Now with fine luck, now wrong in every letter.