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Moral Emblems
1921
Contents:
NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS
I. Some like drink
II. Here, perfect to a wish
III. As seamen on the seas
IV. The pamphlet here presented
MORAL EMBLEMS: A COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES
I. See how the children in the print
II. Reader, your soul upraise to see
III. A PEAK IN DARIEN--Broad-gazing on untrodden lands
IV. See in the print how, moved by whim
V. Mark, printed on the opposing page
MORAL EMBLEMS: A SECOND COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES
I. With storms a-weather, rocks-a-lee
II. The careful angler chose his nook
III. The Abbot for a walk went out
IV. The frozen peaks he once explored
V. Industrious pirate! see him sweep
A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS
For certain soldiers lately dead
THE GRAVER AND THE PEN: OR, SCENES FROM NATURE, WITH APPROPRIATE VERSES
I. PROEM--Unlike the common run of men
II. THE PRECARIOUS MILL--Alone above the stream it stands
III. THE DISPUTATIOUS PINES--The first pine to the second said
IV. THE TRAMPS--Now long enough had day endured
V. THE FOOLHARDY GEOGRAPHER--The howling desert miles around
VI. THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN--The echoing bridge you here may see
MORAL TALES
I. ROBIN AND BEN: OR, THE PIRATE AND THE APOTHECARY--Come, lend
me an attentive ear
II. THE BUILDER'S DOOM--In eighteen-twenty Deacon Thin
NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS
Poem: NOT I
Some like drink In a pint pot, Some like to think; Some not.
Strong Dutch cheese, Old Kentucky rye, Some like these; Not I.
Some like Poe, And others like Scott, Some like Mrs. Stowe; Some not.
Some like to laugh, Some like to cry, Some like chaff; Not I.
Poem: II
Here, perfect to a wish, We offer, not a dish, But just the platter: A book that's not a book, A pamphlet in the look But not the matter.
I own in disarray: As to the flowers of May The frosts of Winter; To my poetic rage, The smallness of the page And of the printer.
Poem: III
As seamen on the seas With song and dance descry Adown the morning breeze An islet in the sky: In Araby the dry, As o'er the sandy plain The panting camels cry To smell the coming rain:
So all things over earth A common law obey, And rarity and worth Pass, arm in arm, away; And even so, to-day, The printer and the bard, In pressless Davos, pray Their sixpenny reward.
Poem: IV
The pamphlet here presented Was planned and printed by A printer unindented, A bard whom all decry.
The author and the printer, With various kinds of skill, Concocted it in Winter At Davos on the Hill.
They burned the nightly taper; But now the work is ripe - Observe the costly paper, Remark the perfect type!
MORAL EMBLEMS I
Poem: I
See how the children in the print Bound on the book to see what's in 't! O, like these pretty babes, may you Seize and APPLY this volume too! And while your eye upon the cuts With harmless ardour opes and shuts, Reader, may your immortal mind To their sage lessons not be blind.