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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PLEA FOR AUTHORS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Failing impartial measure to dispense
Last Line: Source!
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship
First Line: Failing impartial measure to dispense
Last Line: Source!
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship
FAILING impartial measure to dispense
To every suitor, Equity is lame;
And social Justice, stript of reverence
For natural rights, a mockery and a shame;
Law but a servile dupe of false pretence,
If, guarding grossest things from common claim
Now and for ever, She, to works that came
From mind and spirit, grudge a short-lived fence.
"What! lengthened privilege, a lineal tie,
For 'Books'!" Yes, heartless Ones, or be it proved
That 'tis a fault in Us to have lived and loved
Like others, with like temporal hopes to die;
No public harm that Genius from her course
Be turned; and streams of truth dried up, even at their
source!
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