Give up pursuing eloquence, unless You can speak as you feel! One's very heart Must pour it out, with primal powers address One's hearers and compel them

Give up pursuing eloquence, unless You can speak as you feel! One's very heart Must pour it out, with primal powers address One's hearers and compel them with an art Deeper than words. Clip and compile, and brew From the leavings of others your ragout Of rhetoric, pump from your embers A few poor sparks that nobody remembers!