To Margaret

Who hath seduced thee to this foul revolt
From the pure well of Beauty undefiled?
So banish from true wisdom to prefer
Such squalid wit to honourable rhyme?
To write? To scribble? Nonsense and no more?
I will not write upon this argument
To write is human -- not to write divine.

   

Milton Par. Lost Bk. I
Somebody
Cowper's Task, Book I
 
Shakespeare
do. Trolius & Cressida
Pope Essay on Man

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