Scoil: Moynalty (B.)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Thanks for a Snuff-Box

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   The poet received a letter written in verse from a friend, also a snuff-box. He sent the following reply:-

   
   "Dear James - with pleasure I pursued your rhyme,
   And 'tis entertaining, pleasing and sublime;
   Your writing's fair; you speak correct and clear,
   And in your lines no glaring faults appear.
   Obedient nature to your aid inclines
   And lively diction sparkles in your lines;
   Your style is plain and easily understood
   And your muse conveys you through the vale and wood,
   To point the forest and describe the glen
   With your elastic, sweet attracting pen,

   
   And for the snuff-box you bestowed on me,
   While I exist your humble friend I'll be,
   But what avails of my friendship now, dear James,
   When adverse fate my poverty proclaims
   A worthless outcast outside fortune's door,
   Beneath the slur of every purse proud boor?

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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