. Book of the Royal blue . ;He had studied up diction, the rules offiction. And he had an attractive name,Which in due season he thought withreason, Might well be known to fame. Like all the rest he wrote as a test A most imposing pileOf poetical works, with quibs and quirks In the Austin Dobson style ;He blithely sang (like Andrew Lang) In ballade and villanelle,But he found in time that these forms ofrhyme Are not the forms that sell. Lowell, Thoreau, Disraeli, Poe, He copied them all in turn ;Tried Anthony Hope, turned back toPope, Lamb, Addison, Swift and Sterne;The styles that he prized h
. Book of the Royal blue . ;He had studied up diction, the rules offiction. And he had an attractive name,Which in due season he thought withreason, Might well be known to fame. Like all the rest he wrote as a test A most imposing pileOf poetical works, with quibs and quirks In the Austin Dobson style ;He blithely sang (like Andrew Lang) In ballade and villanelle,But he found in time that these forms ofrhyme Are not the forms that sell. Lowell, Thoreau, Disraeli, Poe, He copied them all in turn ;Tried Anthony Hope, turned back toPope, Lamb, Addison, Swift and Sterne;The styles that he prized he plagarized With an infinite deal of toil,And, being no laggard, he graftedHaggard On Du Maurier, Kipling, Doyle. But each poem or tale he would writeand mail The mark contrived to miss,Till in dull despair he rumpled his hair, And wrote him a rhyme like this ! THE MORAL Is, then, that its not the penOf another that brings one pelf, But the simple truth an original youthHas the sense to write himself! Guy Wetmore
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