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The Poets Progress (第1/3页)
the poet's progress a poem in embryo thou, nature, partial nature, i arraign; of thy caprice maternal i plain. the peopled fold thy kindly care have found, the horned bull, tremendous, spurns the ground; the lordly lion has enough and more, the forest trembles at his very roar; thou giv'st the ass his hide, the snail his shell, the puny , victorious, guards his cell. thy minions, kings defend, troul devour, in all th' omnipotence of rule and power: foxes and statesmen subtle wiles ensure; the cit and polecat stink, and are secure: toads with their poison, doctors with their drug, the priest and hedgehog, in their robes, are snug: e'en silly women have defes, their eyes, their tongues—and nameless other parts. but o thou cruel stepmother and hard, to thy poor fenceless, naked child, the bard! a thing unteachable in worldly skill, and half an idiot too, more helpless still: no heels to bear him from the op'ning dun, no claws to dig, his hated sight to shun: no horns, but those by luckless hymen worn, and those, alas! not amalthea's horn: no nerves olfact'ry, true to mammon's foot, runting, grub sagacious, evil's root: the silly sheep that wanders wild astray, is not more friendless, is not more a prey; vampyre—booksellers drain him to the heart, and viper—critics cureless veno
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