CHATTERTON.
"Grim humorist!" I'd write upon his fitone ; "Great poet, aye, but still a child of wit, And martyr to his judges' laok of it. When first his mimic mintiugs rare were shown, * Befooled, they praised them, but, tho fraud made known, ' They spurned his Rowley coinage, bit by bit, 'No silver this,' they oried, but 'counterfejt!' Not eoeing it was gold and all his own. "0 ! dear deceiver, child of mystery ! How well to the last hour he played tho game, knd falsely strong in his adversity,' Hid his young honour in a oloud of Blmrno. And last, tho play's meet epilogue we soo Death— but dissembled by undying fame !" ' ( —Tom Daly*
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1912, Page 12
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113CHATTERTON. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1912, Page 12
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