To Martin Charles Burney, Esq

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Title:     To Martin Charles Burney, Esq
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]

(The Dedication to Vol. II. of Lamb's _Works_, 1818)

Forgive me, BURNEY, if to thee these late
And hasty products of a critic pen,
Thyself no common judge of books and men,
In feeling of thy worth I dedicate.
My _verse_ was offered to an older friend;
The humbler _prose_ has fallen to thy share:
Nor could I miss the occasion to declare,
What spoken in thy presence must offend--
That, set aside some few caprices wild,
Those humorous clouds that flit o'er brightest days,
In all my threadings of this worldly maze,
(And I have watched thee almost from a child),
Free from self-seeking, envy, low design,
I have not found a whiter soul than thine.

[The end]
Charles Lamb's poem: To Martin Charles Burney, Esq

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