The Poetry of Real Life A New Edition, Much Enlarged and Improved. By Henry Ellison |
RESPONSIBILITY OF AUTHORS. |
The Poetry of Real Life | ||
RESPONSIBILITY OF AUTHORS.
With shame and sorrow I my work should see,If aught that I had said or written could
Injure Religión or lessen Good—
For all, though great as Shakspear a man be,
Lie under deep responsibilitie
For what they leave on record—if I've woo'd
The Truth, and ta'en a vain similitude,
Instead, unto my heart, oh, let my plea
Be this: that I erred not from want of will
To love the Good, but power to part the Ill—
Yet let me hope that nothing I have writ
May tend to evil; for I but fulfill
Truth's own commands, when freely I submit
All things to proof, for her own benefit!
The Poetry of Real Life | ||