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The Poetical Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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The Master to the Scholar

Write for the pedant Few, the vein shall grow
Cold at its source and meagre in its flow;
But for the vulgar Many wouldst thou write,
How coarse the passion, and the thought how trite!
“Nor Few, nor Many—riddles from thee fall?”
Author, as Nature smiles—so write;—for All!

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