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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Earthborn, in earthly things much sport I find]
[Other men, we think]
[How short is the life of a man!]
[New things happen every day]
[Man's life is not too happy at the best]
[The cruellest of animals is Man]
[If too presumptuous 'twere to pray]
[What bodily and mental fuss]
[How grave (the child thinks) deep and wise]
[Just at the age when a man is clearest and firmest in mind]
[O were I but rid of these ties]
[What hinders me, you ask, to do my best?]
[Clever Youth of acquisitive turn]
[The Spirit said “Be on my side]
Dead Salt.
[I cannot see, but still I can conceive]
[O the swarm of trifles]
[How obey, yet be autocrat still?]
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Blackberries
[If you believed, loud Sir, some decent part]
If
you believed, loud Sir, some decent part
Of all you argue for with so much art,
You would not more convince that black is white,
But wake some interest and respect you might.
Blackberries