Living
Written upon the Cover of a Blotting Book
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, IV: Poems and Plays, ed. E. V. Lucas
Living
Blank tho' I be, within you'll find
Relics of th' enraptured mind:
Where truth and fable, mirth and wit,
Are safely here deposited.
The placid, furious, envious, wise,
Impart to me their secresies;
Here hidden thoughts in blotted line
Nor sybil can the sense divine;
Lethe and I twin sisters be--
Then, stranger, open me and see.
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Lamb, Charles. “Written upon the Cover of a Blotting Book.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lamb/134/.
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Lamb, Charles. “Written upon the Cover of a Blotting Book.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lamb/134/.
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