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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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Blackberries
[Give me enough of meat and drink]
Give
me enough of meat and drink
That of meat and drink I may cease to think.
But what is enough? Much less, I trow,
Than all that ill habit longs for now.
And what is too little?—with all the rest,
My
whim
demands its share of the best.
Blackberries