Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Poet and Elegiac Poems
Scorn ye not the poet, God's foster-child! Ye who brood o'er shelves, with silver thronged, Know that he at earth's sweet prelude longed First to. Pipe his layin God's own guild! Ye, that crouch in timid awe and fear Ye, that coin a thousand shames each year Ye, that prowl about, with pride as arms Ye, that bring to Virtue many harms!
Scorn ye not the poet, God's lesser self! For he reads the scrolls that God hath writ He is donned with wisdom, and with wit He, whom God entrusts to scan His Shelf Scorn him not; for scorning him is sin! Ye, that lead a life to cheat and win Ye, that bask in garbs, brocaded o'er Ye, that trumpet Gold forevermore!
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