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Edgar Allan Poe - ElizabethEdgar Allan Poe - Elizabeth
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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."
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