A Dramatic Sketch
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Excerpt from A Dramatic Sketch: With Other Poems Dear Potts: Poetry has been to me a singular delight and peculiar happiness - an abundant reward and consolation. In the darkest hours of adversity, it has been my only light; in the loneliest solitude, my only friend; amid a heartless world the only faithful thing. I profess not what I feel not - indifference to fame; but that has not been my keenest incentive to composition; that may be a halo which fades as soon as seen - a wreath that withers in the grasp - a beautiful dream, preluding no reality. But the Aonides have blessed me with higher and purer pleasures; pleasures indestructible, because passed beyond the scoff of envy or the sneer of derision. The happiest hours of my life have been the gift of Poetry; and, however personal malevolence or literary partiality may neglect or contemn a y productions, I shall always revere that divine art which brings oblivion of poverty and wrong to the bleeding breast. I know very well what is the fate of our choicest native flowers; "the trail of the serpent is over them all" - and that serpent is neglect. But I can endure this destiny with more equanimity, since my secret hours of affliction have been blessed by the purest intellectual enjoyment. Flattery cannot elevate nor malignity depress the consciousness of what is due to me; I shall never be rendered giddy by applause, nor miserable by censure; sensible that contemporary criticism is seldom ingenuous, and that time reverses the capricious judgments of men. If I had been the slave of opinion, I should ere this have been the victim of persecution; if abuse had wounded, its many arrows would have slain. But I bless my God, that he gave me a mind which acknowledges no accountability but to itself and its Creator; relies solely on its own resources; and joys or grieves purely from the impulsions of its own energies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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