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To The Author Of A Sonnet Beginning "'Sad Is My Verse,' You Say, 'And Yet No Tear.'"

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1.     Thy verse is "sad" enough, no doubt:     A devilish deal more sad than witty!     Why we should weep I can't find out,     Unless for thee we weep in pity. 2.     Yet there is one I pity more;     And much, alas! I think he needs it:     For he, I'm sure, will suffer sore,     Who, to his own misfortune, reads it. 3.     Thy rhymes, without the aid of magic,     May once be read - but never after:     Yet their effect's by no means tragic,     Although by far too dull for laughter. 4.     But would you make our bosoms bleed,     And of no common pang complain -     If you would make us weep indeed,     Tell us, you'll read them o'er again.

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