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Found in Century Magazine Jan 1888
With Pen and Ink
Walter Learned
With pen and ink one might indite
A sonnet or indeed might write
A billet-doux, or, eke to raise
The wind, a note for thirty days
Not mine the poem: they'd send it back
Or shove it into Bric-A-Brac
My flippant muse is never seen
Within the solid magazine
And not for me the billet-doux;
indeed, who should I write it to?
I would not thus employ my pen,
Unless to woo my wife again.
Ah me! the while I stop to think
What Shakespere did with pen and ink
I wonder how his ink was made. --
if blue or purple was the shade;
His pen, -- broad-nibbed and rather stiff,
Like this, or fine? I wonder if
He tried a "Gillott" thirty-nine,
Or used a coarser pen, like mine?
Or was it brains? No ink I know
will really make ideas flow,
Nor can the most ingenious pen
Make wits and poets of dull men.
So this the miracle explains
He used his pen and ink with brains.
Mine is the harder task, I think,
To write with only pen and ink.