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Never say aught in verse or grave or gay	A
That you in prose would hesitate to say	A
Never in rhyme pretend to tears unless	B
True feeling sheds them in unfeigned distress	B
Or some dream grief with such a mournful strain	C
As night winds make in pine tops stirs your brain	C
To shake them dew like o er the flowers that bloom	D
In the wild dark round Joy s imagined tomb	D
Or save when doubts that over Love may lower	E
Like summer clouds break in a sunny shower	E
Out of your gladdened eyes to freshen all	F
The bowers of memory with their grateful fall	F
Never too much affect that polished thing	G
Once belauded known as point or sting	G
The highest and the noblest growths of wit	H
Are never or but seldom touched with it	H
For of the muse it is not truly born	I
Unless the apex of some burst of scorn	I
Or irony or hate all torture torn	I
Not to increase the passion but to make	J
The wave full surging on its object break	J
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Never if you d be readable at all	F
Aim overmuch at being ethical	K
Though she should be a teacher still the Muse	L
To be a mere schoolmistress should refuse	L
She should instruct us but her methods never	E
Be academic ones however clever	E
Her morals like great nature s morals aye	M
Should work themselves out in an unforced way	A
And not so patly as to hint the while	N
At cryptic ingenuities of style	N
Whate er the theme her ethic lights should shine	O
Full forth as from a central heat divine	O
Or heat inherent to the passion wrought	P
Into the chastened harmony of thought	P
And not be mere extraneous coals of fire	E
Blown for the nonce into factitious ire	Q
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Though sone has oft some beauty most divine	O
Which well we feel yet cannot well define	O
Some yearning excellence intense and far	R
Coming and going like a clouded star	R
Some awful glory we but half descry	R
Like a strong sunset in a stormy sky	M
Yet ne er be murky of set purpose since	S
You only thereby shall the more evince	S
That even the Sublime s but then made sure	R
When like a morning alp it breaks from the obscure	R
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Never heed whether a line strictly goes	T
By learned rule if brook like it warble as it flows	T
Or if in concord with the thought it fills	U
Fast forward like a torrent fast flooding from the hills	U
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Never say aught is fading like a star	R
Because receding in the past afar	R
Since stars do not fade but shine on no less	B
Thought lost in light to our weaksightedness	B
And no true trope should ever rest on fancy	B
But claim a universal relevancy	B
Nor think a line is racy to the core	R
And bold and bravely eloquent the more	R
It striving seems to tear itself asunder	R
Like this Down there i the deep heart o the thunder	R
But for which surely out of chaos none	V
Might feign to find a sanction save in fun	V
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Never think harshness the best foil to raise	B
And relish sweetness for love craggy lays	B
Yet never be you glib when passion s force	B
Should ridge your style as by a tempest hoarse	B
The deep is roughened into waves that roar	R
At heaven upheaping huddling more and more	R
To burst at last in booming thunder on the shore	R
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Never be such a pagan as to deem	W
That truth or beauty must diviner seem	W
For some abnormal set off hunched and rude	X
Prowling for evil in the neighbourhood	X
If such strange opposite breathe not the air	R
Of nature being found not conjured there	R
And never to be graceless be you fain	C
Till to be graceful you have tried in vain	C
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Never be cheated never may you be	B
Into the cramp belief that poesy	B
Must of necessity in soul be one	V
With the mere form of verse if it but deftly run	V
Or pour as with a mill wheel s vigorous cheer	R
A rhyming clatter hard upon the ear	R
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Never believe that verse a license knows	B
For aught that would be balderdash in prose	B
Or that all reason may at any time	Y
Find a sufficient substitute in rhyme	Y
Or that because with many words you re fraught	X
There must be under them some flood of thought	X
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Never compel a simile that wont	X
Take service without forcing if it don t	B
As of itself into your verses flow	Z
But true to liberty and let it go	Z
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Never reject a homely sounding phrase	B
That your whole meaning easily conveys	B
For one made current by some courtly wit	X
Which barely indicates a shade of it	X
Or which for probably it so may fall	F
Does not express what you would mean at all	F
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Never suppose that you in song are free	B
To strain all praise and make it flattery	B
To sing of the heroic is to raise	B
One value by another but to praise	B
Mere clowns in verse or natures lean and cold	X
Is like to setting gravel stones in gold	X
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Never exalt vagaries to a station	V
But due to flights of the imagination	V
Gas charged balloons put vainly all a bloat	X
For clouds of God that in the orient float	X
Theatric thunders all set brattling for	R
The dread all shaking tempest trumps of Thor	R
For in the end all charlatanry must	X
The more it startle but the more disgust	X
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And lastly never take for gospel all	F
Your friends say of your genius when they call	F
Its merits o er but at the same time see	B
That you do never take yourself to be	B
So great an ass as your known foes declare	R
They do most solemnly believe you are	R
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Each embryo poet profit by my strain	C
Then shall men say He has not lived in vain	C

Charles Harpur

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