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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Here must I stay awhile, against my will]
[“Nation of Shopkeepers”—how base a name!]
[A whore that's gentle, mild, and sweet]
[Soldiers have fame, and harlots infamy]
[Hireling Soldier, Priest, and Woman]
[Many things flash across the town-bred mind]
[The Workers' Revolution must begin]
[Old folk, tho' weak, will serve you best: of late]
[Is idleness indeed so black a crime?]
[O the buzz and clack and clatter]
[The Century gallops, glorying itself]
[In the Great City, as 'twere Hell]
[One Cockney you despise; four million such]
[A bat-wing'd Cupid takes his flight]
[Stir and change from morn till night]
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[Dear Poet! is thy free light step the same]
Dear
Poet! is thy free light step the same,
Clad in those heavy pompous robes of fame?
Canst play at leap-frog, climb a tree, or go
Blackberrying as of old?—I fear me, no!
Blackberries