The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood Edited, with notes by Walter Jerrold |
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[WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF THE FOREGOING]
Give me a pen that's charg'd with dewsFresh gather'd from the morning rose,
And let it stain my page with hues
As bright as kernel buds enclose.
In common ink shall I indite,
With ink that dates the felon's doom,
That forges bonds,—no, let me write
My bloomy thoughts in tints of bloom.
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