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Poems
By William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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RESPECT FOR LITERATURE.
“
For
letters, I declare,”
(Old Pomposo cries) “I bear
As profound respect as any man on earth!”
He is certainly exempt
From the species of contempt
To which familiarity gives birth.
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