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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[More books!—A juggler, so they say]
[The printer and binder have given such a look]
[Great Medium, sufficiently clever to write]
[How clever soever your Book may be]
[Could famous authors' Ghosts get at their books]
To a Writer.
[I have my old Lempriere and new Doctor Smith in the study]
[This is worth noting: wit's controll'd by dulness]
Writing.
Prim.
Book and Author.
PLUS ULTRA.
On a Certain Scientific Writer.
[In ladies' writing if no other aid is]
[Eyebrow, the over-educated man]
Maximilian Gusher.
[Form, subject, given—I'll find the skill]
[Among the tyrannies, the tyranny]
[How earn'st thou scourging, famed Boccaccio?]
[When you account for Hamlet, Monsieur Taine]
[The Teacher lacking truth and lacking love]
[For priests and chieftains, people took of old]
[The Writer's face as Frontispiece display'd]
Books.
[Writing is now an adjunct to “the Trade;”]
Two Visitors to the Printing Exhibition.
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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