Come where the Port and the Burgundy flow!
Fame’s trump is sounding, topics abounding,
Leave, then, each scribb’ler, your high attic story;
Critics shall many a day speak of your book, and say,
“He wrote for the snuff-shop, he wrote not for glory!”
Write, write, tourist and traveller,
Fill up your pages and write in good order;
Write, write, scribb’ler and driveller,
Why leave such margins?—come nearer the border.
Robert Gilfillan, 1828.