Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, by Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Give Me a Pen[]
Give me a pen, a pen of steel,
Dipp'd in my bosom's blood;
That I may set down all I feel,
And fix this morbid mood!
Nay, give me a pen of gold,
Dipp'd in my soul's pure fire;
And I will tell what ne'er was told,
And prove old Death a liar!
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