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Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink What writers think? Oh, wisely write, That pages white Be not the worse for ink and thee.

Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword.

From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword.

Oh! nature's noblest gift--my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen, That might instrument of little men!

The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Goose bee and calf govern the world.

The pen became a clarion.

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.