PEDANTIC LITERALIST
Prince Rupert’s drop, paper muslin ghost,white torch—“with pow’r to say unkindthings with kindness, and the mostirritating things in the midst of love andtears,” you invite destruction.You are like the meditative manwith the perfunctory heart; itscarved cordiality ranto and fro at first, like an inlaid and roy’limmutable production;then afterward “neglected to bepainful” and “deluded him withloitering formality,doing its duty as if it did it not,”presenting an obstructionto the motive that it served. What stooderect in you, has withered. Alittle “palm-tree of turned wood”informs your once spontaneous core in itsimmutable reduction.
Prince Rupert’s drop, paper muslin ghost,white torch—“with pow’r to say unkindthings with kindness, and the mostirritating things in the midst of love andtears,” you invite destruction.You are like the meditative manwith the perfunctory heart; itscarved cordiality ranto and fro at first, like an inlaid and roy’limmutable production;then afterward “neglected to bepainful” and “deluded him withloitering formality,doing its duty as if it did it not,”presenting an obstructionto the motive that it served. What stooderect in you, has withered. Alittle “palm-tree of turned wood”informs your once spontaneous core in itsimmutable reduction.
Prince Rupert’s drop, paper muslin ghost,white torch—“with pow’r to say unkindthings with kindness, and the mostirritating things in the midst of love andtears,” you invite destruction.
You are like the meditative manwith the perfunctory heart; itscarved cordiality ranto and fro at first, like an inlaid and roy’limmutable production;
then afterward “neglected to bepainful” and “deluded him withloitering formality,doing its duty as if it did it not,”presenting an obstruction
to the motive that it served. What stooderect in you, has withered. Alittle “palm-tree of turned wood”informs your once spontaneous core in itsimmutable reduction.