Living
Nil Admirari, &c.
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Horace and Creech!
Thus do ye teach?
What idle speech!
Pope! and could you
Sanction it too?
'Twill never do.
One idle pen
Writes it, and ten
Write it again.
Sages require
Much to admire,
Nought to desire.
God! grant thou me
Nature to see
Admiringly.
Lo! how the wise
Read in her eyes
Thy mysteries!
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Nil Admirari, &c.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/681/.
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