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From 1827. To the right of each line, Poe gives the source from which it was adapted. The reference of Cowper applies to the line marked and the following one.

70562To MargaretEdgar Allan Poe

Who hath seduced thee to this foul revolt
From the pure well of Beauty undefiled?
So banish from true wisdom to prefer
Such squalid wit to honourable rhyme?
To write? To scribble? Nonsense and no more?
I will not write upon this argument
To write is human -- not to write divine.

Milton Par. Lost Bk. I
Somebody
Cowper's Task, Book I

Shakespeare
do. Trolius & Cressida
Pope Essay on Man

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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