“Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack,
Ye little men of little souls!
And bid them huddle at your back -
Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!Fill all the air with hungry wails -
"Reward us, ere we think or write!
Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails
To sate the swinish appetite!"”

Fame's Penny-Trumpet st. 1 & 2
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

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