Monday, June 11, 2007

What is in a Name?

Elizabeth, it surely is most fit
[Logic and comMon usage so commanding]
In thy own bOok that first thy Name be writ,
Zeno and other sages notwithstanding;
And I have other reasons for so doing
Besides my innate love of Contradiction;
Each poet — if A poet — in pursuing
The muses thro' their bowers of Truth or Fiction,
Has studied very little of his part,
Read nothing, written less — in short's a fool
Endued with neither soul, nor sense, nor art,
Being ignorant of one iMportant rule,
EmplOyed in eveN the theses of the school—
Called — I forget the heathenIsh Greek name
[cAlled anything,its meaning is the same]
"Always write first things uppermost in the heart."



True Colors are Beautiful Like a Rainbow

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