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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
Prim.
Of
Grammar and of Science every rule
Knows
Prim
, and is in short a finish'd fool.
Blackberries
