Master and Man(主与奴).pdf

Moral Emblems
Moral Emblems
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Moral Emblems
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 ing rain:
So all things over earth mon 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.
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Moral Emblems
Poem: IV
The pamphlet here presented Was planned and printed by A printer
unindented, A bard whom all decry.
The author and the printer, With various kinds of skill, Concocted it in
Winter At Davos on the Hill.
They burned the nightly taper; But now the work is ripe - Observe the
costly paper, Remark the perfect type!
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Moral Emblems
MORAL EMBLEMS I
Poem: I
See how the children in the print Bound on the book to see what's in 't!
O, like these pretty babes, may you Seize and APPLY this volume too!
And while your eye upon the cuts With harmless ardour opes and shuts,
Reader, may your immortal mind To their sage lessons not be blind.
Poem: II
Reader, your soul upraise to see, In yon fair cut designed by me, The
pauper by the highwayside Vainly soliciting from pride. Mark how the
Beau with easy air Contemns the anxious rustic's prayer, And, casting a
disdainful eye, Goes gaily gallivanting by. He from the poor averts his
head . . . He will r