Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump |
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XXXI. NIL ADMIRARI, ETC.
Horace and Creech!
Thus do ye teach?
What idle speech!
Thus do ye teach?
What idle speech!
Pope! and could you
Sanction it too?
'Twill never do.
Sanction it too?
'Twill never do.
One idle pen
Writes it, and ten
Write it again.
Writes it, and ten
Write it again.
Sages require
Much to admire,
Nought to desire.
Much to admire,
Nought to desire.
God! grant thou me
Nature to see
Admiringly.
Nature to see
Admiringly.
Lo! how the wise
Read in her eyes
Thy mysteries!
Read in her eyes
Thy mysteries!
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