Versos English Charles Godfrey Leland Reflections In A Printing-Office

English poem

Reflections In A Printing-Office

by (1824–1903)

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Faust means a fist—a fist can hit, I ween: Faust made the greatest hit that e’er was seen.

I know not if ’twas Guttenberg Or Faust who first began To print—the honour was too great For any single man.

Printing is called the Art of Arts, And typos then are artists—right— They are the nobler counterparts Of those who work in Black and White.