Songs Controversial By Silent Long [i.e. T. T. Lynch] |
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THE CRAWLING CRITIC. |
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V. THE CRAWLING CRITIC.
Suppose a creature on a head,
That has no business there,
With stealthy, irritating tread
Should crawl from hair to hair;
Of all the secrets of the brain
What could that creature know,
How learn the ecstacy and pain,
That have their home below?
That has no business there,
With stealthy, irritating tread
Should crawl from hair to hair;
Of all the secrets of the brain
What could that creature know,
How learn the ecstacy and pain,
That have their home below?
Crawl, critic, down a ringlet crawl,
And maiden virtue teach;
Crawl, critic, over Samson's locks,
His secret strength to reach:
Crawl on the curly-pated child,
And learn his innocence;
Crawl on the grey-beard, and find out
Experience and good sense.
And maiden virtue teach;
Crawl, critic, over Samson's locks,
His secret strength to reach:
Crawl on the curly-pated child,
And learn his innocence;
Crawl on the grey-beard, and find out
Experience and good sense.
Crawl, critic, over every line
That ever poet sang,
You're still outside, you'll never know
One secret joy or pang:
Intruding, you may vex the skin
With superficial pain;
Profoundly far from you still lies
The wise and feeling brain.
That ever poet sang,
You're still outside, you'll never know
One secret joy or pang:
Intruding, you may vex the skin
With superficial pain;
Profoundly far from you still lies
The wise and feeling brain.
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