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YE powers fantastic goblin sylph and fay	A
Whose subtle forms no laws material sway	A
Ethereal essences that dart and glide	B
Wherever pleasure or caprice may guide	B
Who leap with equal ease if ye are bid	C
A lady's thimble and a pyramid	C
And scale alike regardless of a fall	D
The parlour fender and the Chinese wall	D
Slip through a key hole 'neath the listed door	E
Or from the smallest crevice in the floor	E
Or steer your way and man's devices mock	F
Through the dark mazes of a patent lock	F
Of you I sing not but my theme shall be	G
Of things as quick and volatile as ye	G
Those busy subtle pronouns I and Me	G
Unsought and unexpected they appear	H
No barriers heed they and no laws revere	H
But wind and penetrate with dextrous force	I
Through all the cracks and crannies of discourse	I
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Of those with whom self proves the darling theme	J
Not all indulge it in a like extreme	J
Some have the sense to cover it no doubt	K
Would they had sense enough to root it out	K
We therefore bring as first upon the list	L
The loud loquacious vulgar egotist	L
Whose I's and Me's are scattered in his talk	M
Thick as the pebbles on a gravel walk	M
Whate'er the topic be through thick and thin	N
Himself is thrust or squeezed or sidled in	N
Conceiving thus his own importance swells	O
He makes himself a part of all he tells	O
And still to this he winds the subject round	P
Suppose his friend is married sick or drowned	P
He brought about the match he lets you know	Q
Told him about Miss B a year ago	Q
Or never shall forget whate'er ensues	R
How much he felt when first he heard the news	R
A horseman thrown lay weltering in the mud	S
He thought of something that would stop the blood	S
A neighhour had a quarrel with his wife	T
He never saw such doings in his life	T
A fire broke out at midnight in the town	U
He started up threw on his flannel gown	U
Seized an old hat full twice as large as his	V
And said says he 'I wonder where it is '	-
Was doubtful if 'twere best to stay or go	Q
And trembled like a leaf from top to toe	Q
In vain at times some modest stander by	W
Catching a pause to make his brief reply	W
Cries 'dear ' or 'only think ' or 'so did I '	-
For he by no such obstacles deterred	X
Runs on must tell his tale and will be heard	X
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Woe to themselves and woe to small and great	Y
When two good egotists are t te t te	G
A battle this though not of swords but tongues	Z
And he the victor who has strongest lungs	Z
Too eager each in what himself recites	A2
To see how little interest it invites	A2
Each takes the attention his companion shows	B2
For pleasure in the story as it goes	B2
Though judging by himself he might have known	C2
He is but waiting to begin his own	C2
Watching some gap in the opponent's speech	D2
To force it in like soldiers at a breach	D2
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Few talkers can detain themselves to weigh	A
The true impression made by what they say	A
And of all talkers egotists are last	E2
E'en to suspect that they may talk too fast	E2
But often while pursuing their career	H
Rejoiced that while they speak the rest must hear	F2
Some dry observer whom they scarce perceive	G2
Sits smiling in his philosophic sleeve	G2
Impelled while others carelessly condemn	H2
To blush for human nature and for them	H2
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But 'tis not only with the loud and rude	I2
That self betrays its nature unsubdued	I2
Polite attention and refined address	J2
But ill conceal it and can ne'er suppress	J2
One truth despite of manner stands confest	I2
They love themselves unspeakably the best	I2
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Many monopolists of words have been	N
Unconscious quite of their besetting sin	N
Of strong susceptibility possessed	I2
Enraptured oft and oft as much distrest	I2
They deem themselves nor others deem them less	J2
Affectionate and feeling to excess	J2
The charge of selfishness or unconcern	K2
In other's weal with indignation spurn	K2
And think their failing and their weakest part	I2
Is having as the phrase is too much heart	I2
But tender hearts as well were hearts of stone	C2
If what they feel is for themselves alone	C2
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Have you no knowledge of this species then	L2
Take fair Matilda for a specimen	M2
Compare the sketch with faces you have known	C2
And ere you quite discard it with your own	C2
What has Matilda then no heart to feel	N2
Generous emotion for another's weal	N2
Oh yes she has the doubt she would declare	O2
Hard and unjust to her beyond compare	O2
Her friends' and neighbours' interests to forget	I2
She were the last to bear the blame but yet	I2
Engrossed by cares and interests of her own	C2
In fact she gladly lets her friends alone	C2
Too eager and too busy to reflect	I2
What others may and what they do expect	I2
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Calm observation and acute survey	A
Of others and ourselves are swept away	A
By that strong rude velocity of thought	I2
Which meets no proper barrier where it ought	I2
But rushes on impetuous and unstemmed	I2
Astonished and abashed and self condemned	I2
Would stand Matilda could she once be shown	C2
Not other people's failings but her own	C2
And see how borne on that perpetual tide	I2
She thinks and talks of self and none beside	I2
Then might she learn to check its rapid force	I
Abate its swiftness and divert its course	I
Make it through other fields meandering go	Q
And drain in time the selfish channel low	Q
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Matilda's friend as few besides had done	M2
A patient quiet unpretending one	M2
Sits cheerful and unwearied day by day	I2
To hear as usual what she has to say	I2
By long experience now at length she learns	P2
To drop all reference to her own concerns	P2
The insipid 'dear ' or 'sure ' too well declares	Q2
Impatience in discussing those affairs	Q2
And then the eager tone and altered brow	R2
How much her own are dearer so that now	R2
Whether her heart be aching or it swell	N2
With some sweet hope 'twould be a joy to tell	N2
She cheeks the inclination to attend	I2
To some new project of her eager friend	I2
How she intends as soon as winter's o'er	S2
To make a passage to the nursery door	E
Enlarge the parlour where she loves to sit	I2
And have the Turkey carpet made to fit	I2
Or how she means next spring to go to town	U
And then to have her aunt and uncle down	U
Or if more intellectual in her mood	I2
How she employs her hours of solitude	I2
Her plans how much they fail or how succeed	I2
What last she read and what she means to read	I2
What time she rises and what time retires	T2
And how her deeds fall short of her desires	U2
All this is very well perhaps you cry	W
True if her friend might whisper 'so do I '	-
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Whene'er from home Matilda has to go	Q
With the same theme her letters overflow	Q
Sheet after sheet in rapid course she sends	V2
Brimful and crossed and written at both ends	V2
About her journey visits feelings friends	V2
Still still the same or if her friend had cast	I2
Down in a modest postscript in her last	I2
Some line which to transactions may refer	S2
Of vital consequence perhaps to her	S2
Matilda in reply just scrawls you know	Q
Along that slip on which the seal must go	Q
'I'm glad or grieved to hear of so and so '	-
	-
How can she pardon such unkind neglects	W2
Why 'tis poor human nature she reflects	W2
Judging with kindness candour and good sense	X2
Takes it from whence it comes without offence	X2
And she with meekness gifted to endure	Y2
The evil she laments but cannot cure	Y2
Too wise to censure or resent the ill	N2
Sees it and smiles as even friendship will	N2
Resolves to watch herself with double toil	N2
And root the selfish weeds from nature's soil	N2
And so should we for we are selfish all	N2
Without one real exception since the fall	N2
Good nature and good sense in some 'tis true	Z2
Do much the vicious temper to subdue	Z2
While some unwittingly allow its growth	A3
Who yet might fair pretensions make to both	A3
Of all impostors he least wisdom shows	X2
Who can and does upon himself impose	X2
Self knowledge of all knowledge is the best	I2
By most pretended but by few possessed	I2
That true philosophy not understo	I2

Jane Taylor

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