Moral Emblems 道德标志

Moral Emblems 1 Moral Emblems 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org Moral Emblems 2 Poem: NOT Poem: I Some like drink In a pint pot, Some like to think; Some not. Strong Dutch cheese, Old Kentucky rye, Some like these; Not I. Some like Poe, And others like Scott, Some like Mrs. Stowe; Some not. Some like to laugh, Some like to cry, Some like chaff; Not I. Poem: II Here, perfect to a wish, We offer, not a dish, But just the platter: A book that's not a book, A pamphlet in the look But not the matter. I own in disarray: As to the flowers of May The frosts of Winter; To my poetic rage, The smallness of the page And of the printer. Poem: III As seamen on the seas With song and dance descry Adown the morning breeze An islet in the sky: In Araby the dry, As o'er the sandy plain The panting camels cry To smell the coming rain: So all things over earth A common law obey, And rarity and worth Pass, arm in arm, away; And even so, to-day, The printer and the bard, In pressless Davos, pray Their sixpenny reward. 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org Moral Emblems 3 Poem: IV The pamphlet here presented Was planned and printed by A printer unindented, A bard ......