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- 1850
- ELIZABETH
- by Edgar Allan Poe
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- Elizabeth, it surely is most fit
- [Logic and common usage so commanding]
- In thy own book that first thy name be writ,
- Zeno and other sages notwithstanding;
- And I have other reasons for so doing
- Besides my innate love of contradiction;
- Each poet - if a poet - in pursuing
- The muses thro' their bowers of Truth or Fiction,
- Has studied very little of his part,
- Read nothing, written less - in short's a fool
- Endued with neither soul, nor sense, nor art,
- Being ignorant of one important rule,
- Employed in even the theses of the school-
- Called - I forget the heathenish Greek name
- [Called anything, its meaning is the same]
- "Always write first things uppermost in the heart."
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- THE END
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