Pure and unstained, I live in Cowper’s lore;
On heavenward pinions I with Milton soar;
Ever and anon I change with playful Burns,
The peasant’s mirth, the lover’s grief by turns;
Reft of all hope, with ill-starred White complain,
Yielding to Byron all my scornful strain.
(John Critchley Prince)
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