Moral Emblems

Contents:

NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS

I. Some like drink
II. Here, perfect to a wish
III. As seamen on the seas
IV. The pamphlet here presented

MORAL EMBLEMS: A COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES

I. See how the children in the print
II. Reader, your soul upraise to see
III. A PEAK IN DARIEN--Broad-gazing on untrodden lands
IV. See in the print how, moved by whim
V. Mark, printed on the opposing page

MORAL EMBLEMS: A SECOND COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES

I. With storms a-weather, rocks-a-lee
II. The careful angler chose his nook
III. The Abbot for a walk went out
IV. The frozen peaks he once explored
V. Industrious pirate! see him sweep

A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS

For certain soldiers lately dead

THE GRAVER AND THE PEN: OR, SCENES FROM NATURE, WITH APPROPRIATE
VERSES

I. PROEM--Unlike the common run of men
II. THE PRECARIOUS MILL--Alone above the stream it stands
III. THE DISPUTATIOUS PINES--The first pine to the second said
IV. THE TRAMPS--Now long enough had day endured
V. THE FOOLHARDY GEOGRAPHER--The howling desert miles around
VI. THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN--The echoing bridge you here may see

MORAL TALES

I. ROBIN AND BEN: OR, THE PIRATE AND THE APOTHECARY--Come, lend
me an attentive ear
II. THE BUILDER'S DOOM--In eighteen-twenty Deacon Thin

NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS

Poem: NOT I

Some like drink
In a pint pot,
Some like to think;
Some not.

Strong Dutch cheese,
Old Kentucky rye,
Some like these;
Not I.

Some like Poe,
And others like Scott,
Some like Mrs. Stowe;
Some not.

Some like to laugh,
Some like to cry,
Some like chaff;
Not I.

Poem: II

Here, perfect to a wish,
We offer, not a dish,
But just the platter:
A book that's not a book,
A pamphlet in the look
But not the matter.

I own in disarray:
As to the flowers of May
The frosts of Winter;
To my poetic rage,
The smallness of the page
And of the printer.

Poem: III

As seamen on the seas
With song and dance descry
Adown the morning breeze
An islet in the sky:
In Araby the dry,
As o'er the sandy plain
The panting camels cry
To smell the coming rain:

So all things over earth
A common law obey,
And rarity and worth
Pass, arm in arm, away;
And even so, to-day,
The printer and the bard,
In pressless Davos, pray
Their sixpenny reward.

Poem: IV

The pamphlet here presented
Was planned and printed by
A printer unindented,
A bard whom all decry.

The author and the printer,