The lamp will to itself protest:
"His be the blame! I did my best!"
TO A YOUNG POET.
Tired of work? Then drop away
From the land of cheerful day!
Pen the muse, and drive the pen
If you'd stay with living men.
Fancy fails? Then pluck from those
The lamp will to itself protest:
"His be the blame! I did my best!"
Tired of work? Then drop away
From the land of cheerful day!
Pen the muse, and drive the pen
If you'd stay with living men.
Fancy fails? Then pluck from those