A Novel Was a Book by Pollok

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 3, 1879

A Novel Was a Book

By Pollok

A Novel was a book Three-volumed and once read, and oft crammed full Of poisonous error, blackened every page, And oftener still, of trifling, second-hand Remark, and old, diseased, putrid thought, And miserable incident, at war With nature, with itself, and truth; Yet charming still the greedy reader on 'Till done, he tries to recollect his thoughts, And nothing found but dreamy emptiness. —Pollok, Course of Time.