To The Author Of Poems Published Under The Name Of Barry Cornwall

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Title:     To The Author Of Poems Published Under The Name Of Barry Cornwall
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]

(1820)

Let hate, or grosser heats, their foulness mask
Under the vizor of a borrowed name;
Let things eschew the light deserving blame:
No cause hast thou to blush for thy sweet task.
"Marcian Colonna" is a dainty book;
And thy "Sicilian Tale" may boldly pass;
Thy "Dream" 'bove all, in which, as in a glass,
On the great world's antique glories we may look.
No longer then, as "lowly substitute,
Factor, or PROCTOR, for another's gains,"
Suffer the admiring world to be deceived;
Lest thou thyself, by self of fame bereaved,
Lament too late the lost prize of thy pains,
And heavenly tunes piped through an alien flute.

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Charles Lamb's poem: To The Author Of Poems Published Under The Name Of Barry Cornwall

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