[BNP/E3, 49D¹ – 81]

Hall Carrie at times talks sense — he does indeed!

       Marie Corelli too — but not so often;

They say not much, ‘tis true, yet, as I read,

       My heart at once towards them gives to soften

They must mean something! For they saw the seed

       Of some great useless thing all men to often

And will their looks with Christian faith and mind

For the eternal glory of mankind.

[81^v]

{…} grew violent

And lost a good occasion of being silent.

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Boys will be boys.

Ars Poetica

Charles Robert Anon

Charles Robert Anon