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Oliver Wendell Holmes - Cacoethes Scribendi

If all the trees in all the woods were men; 
And each and every blade of grass a pen; 
If every leaf on every shrub and tree 
Turned to a sheet of foolscap; every sea 
Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes 
Had nothing else to do but act as scribes, 
And for ten thousand ages, day and night, 
The human race should write, and write, and write, 
Till all the pens and paper were used up, 
And the huge inkstand was an empty cup, 
Still would the scribblers clustered round its brink 
Call for more pens, more paper, and more ink. 

Added: on January 30th, 2006 at 10:33 AM | Viewed: 670 times | Comments and analysis of Cacoethes Scribendi by Oliver Wendell Holmes Comments (2)


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Poet: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Poem: Cacoethes Scribendi
Poem of the Day: Jan 30 2006

Comment 2 of 2, added on January 30th, 2006 at 2:51 PM.

hey this poem was good it showed alot of feelings and the truth is that I write alot of poems and alot of people like them and they tell me I should put them on the enter net, but I don't want to cuz people might copy them and say they wrote this when they did't u know what I mean anyways it was a good poem and I liked it well get back to me as soon as u can laters love donna from Dublin High School.

Donna from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on January 30th, 2006 at 10:33 AM.

this poem of contest is great!pen,paper,men and ink ,drink all of this word's mean-Writing and human...First of all we use the computer now ,and ı think that we forgot the pen-paper-and write.
Almost we'll forget smell of the paper and ink.


deniz kara from Turkey

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