The poem
RUSTICITY’S ungainly form May cloud the highest mind; But when the heart is nobly warm, The good excuse will find.
Propriety’s cold, cautious rules Warm fervour may o’erlook: But spare poor sensibility Th’ ungentle, harsh rebuke.
Fragment on Sensibility
143Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
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