 | Poems on several occasions |  |
A shoemaker d'ye say?
I do: what then?
I do: what then?
A Shoemaker and Poet?
True again.
Where is the wonder? If you look around,
You'll find some Poets—Coblers most profound!
With borrow'd thesis versify and patch it,
And spoil both upper leather, sole, and latchet;
By which 'tis so transform'd, so diff'rent grown,
That th'owner does not know it for his own.
A Shoemaker and Poet?
Where is the wonder? If you look around,
You'll find some Poets—Coblers most profound!
With borrow'd thesis versify and patch it,
And spoil both upper leather, sole, and latchet;
By which 'tis so transform'd, so diff'rent grown,
That th'owner does not know it for his own.
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Good agen:
Ar'n't Shoemakers the same as other men?
No doubt; but men are born of diff'rent cast,
“Let not the Cobler go beyond his last,”
Lest, like that critic, who to fame aspir'd,
He lose the honours which he has acquir'd;
For while he criticiz'd upon the shoe
He gain'd applause, as learned critics do;
But when he took upon him to impart
His curious observations on the art
Th'ingenious statuary had display'd,
Where all but life and motion was essay'd,
No wonder why the well known censure past,
“Let not the Cobler go beyond his last.”
Ar'n't Shoemakers the same as other men?
No doubt; but men are born of diff'rent cast,
“Let not the Cobler go beyond his last,”
Lest, like that critic, who to fame aspir'd,
He lose the honours which he has acquir'd;
For while he criticiz'd upon the shoe
He gain'd applause, as learned critics do;
But when he took upon him to impart
His curious observations on the art
Th'ingenious statuary had display'd,
Where all but life and motion was essay'd,
No wonder why the well known censure past,
“Let not the Cobler go beyond his last.”
| Poems on several occasions | |