Explore "The Scarlet Gown: THE BANISHED BEJANT FROM THE UNPUBLISHED REMAINS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE" by Robert Fuller Murray on Textopian.
Thrice happy are those / Who ne'er heard of Greek Prose -- / Or Greek Poetry either, as far as that goes; / For Liddell and Scott / Shall cumber them not, / Nor Sargent nor Sidgwick shall break their repose.
But I, late at night, / By the very bad light / Of very bad gas, must painfully write / Some stuff that a Greek / With his delicate cheek / Would smile at as 'barbarous' -- faith, he well might.