Jane Austen (Classic Reprint)

Didst come as dawn to elves and sprites, Replacing spectre-haunted nights With daylights genial reign; Shrewd exorcist who couldst so well Romance sgoblin bands expel, Yet keep thine own unrivalled spell, Incomparable Jane! How doth thy bodkins slender steel Men sfrailties and faults reveal! To thee Achilles is all heel, Thou lash of Follys train! Thou scourgest tomboy, cynic, grig, The man whose diction is all wig, The snob, the autocrat, the prig, Inimitable Jane! Thou seekest truth, and when tis found Thou dost its sportive whims confound; The shafts, the stables, and the pound Shall now its pranks restrain; It dreads thy logics bristling fence, Thy files of serried evidence, Thy panoplied, embattled sense, Irrefragable Jane! I know thy passions cautious throes, I ts timed and tactful overflows, I ts firmly regulated glows, I ts exemplary pain; .
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