A Pleasing Thought

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Title:     A Pleasing Thought
Author: John Kendrick Bangs [More Titles by Bangs]

THEY speak most truly who do say
We have no writing-folk to-day
Like those whose names, in days gone by,
Upon the scroll of fame stood high.
And when I think of Smollett’s tales,
Of waspish Pope’s ill-natured rails,
Of Fielding dull, of Sterne too free,
Of Swift’s uncurbed indecency,
Of Dr. Johnson’s bludgeon-wit,
I must confess I’m glad of it!

[The end]
John Kendrick Bangs's poem: Pleasing Thought

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