Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . [267] Digitized by Microsoft® Crichton We must touch up the youthful CrichtonBy all allowed to be a bright un—Do not omit the Admirable—Who it would seem was barely ableWith this addition to his nameTo get it on the roll of Fame. Indeed his life reads like a fable,For have you ever seen or lit onA single word by this great Crichton?Whats in a name? we well may sayWhen of a man great in his dayAll but the name, has passed away! [268] Digitized by Microsoft® Horace Walpole Walpole needeth not my pen,His own pen doth him best display,The man and m
Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . [267] Digitized by Microsoft® Crichton We must touch up the youthful CrichtonBy all allowed to be a bright un—Do not omit the Admirable—Who it would seem was barely ableWith this addition to his nameTo get it on the roll of Fame. Indeed his life reads like a fable,For have you ever seen or lit onA single word by this great Crichton?Whats in a name? we well may sayWhen of a man great in his dayAll but the name, has passed away! [268] Digitized by Microsoft® Horace Walpole Walpole needeth not my pen,His own pen doth him best display,The man and manners of his dayHe clearly shows in this one ray;So to his hand I leave the job0£ picturing the perfect Snob. Men of the proudest blood shall not blush to distinguish themselTesin letters, as well as arms, when they learn what excellence LordHerbert has [269] Digitized by Microsoft® Chatterton How could Fate blindly use its powerTo crush so fair and frail a flower?In thy short life no gleam appearsOf comfort, only bitter tears;Others die young and young remainTheir memory a saddened joy,But thine, poor boy, a lasting name in water writ doth , on a sigh was born away.
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