Living
To Emma Button
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, IV: Poems and Plays, ed. E. V. Lucas
Living
EMMA, eldest of your name,
Meekly trusting in her God
Midst the red-hot plough-shares trod,
And unscorch'd preserved her fame.
By that test if you were tried,
Ugly flames might be defied;
Though devouring fire's a glutton,
Through the trial you might go
"On the light fantastic toe,"
Nor for plough-shares care a BUTTON.
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Lamb, Charles. “To Emma Button.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lamb/133/.
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Lamb, Charles. “To Emma Button.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lamb/133/.
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