To the Editor of the Marlborough Press.
Sir—Now that, like Warren’s blacking, and Moses and Son, the Marlborough Press keeps a poet, it is desirable that each of his lucubrations should be complete in itself. His maiden effort, however, is deficient in this respect, owing, of course, to the retiring modesty of his virgin pen. Practice will, no doubt, overcome his diffidence. In the meantime, by way of supplying the deficiency in his first appearance in your paper I beg that you will append the following to his portraiture of “A True Gentleman Who never fraudulently decks Himself in borrowed plumes : The praise that is another’s due Ne’er as his own assumes. Who never steals another’s pen, And sports it as his own; For literary fraud to him Is utterly unknown. Who ne’er invades the Book of Psalms And filches one of them ; Nor sends it to the Marlbro' Press, And signs it J. T. M. Yours, &c., Tom. Beaverton, March 3.
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Marlborough Press, Volume I, Issue 10, 9 March 1860, Page 3
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162To the Editor of the Marlborough Press. Marlborough Press, Volume I, Issue 10, 9 March 1860, Page 3
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