<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392983" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballade Of The Average Reader</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I try to touch the public taste,<br> For thus I earn my daily bread.<br>I try to write what folks will paste<br> In scrap books after I am dead.<br> By Public Craving I am led.<br>(I' sooth, a most despotic leader) <br> Yet, though I write for Tom and Ned,<br>I've never seen an average reader.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Editor is good and chaste,<br> But says: (Above the public's head; <br>This is _too_ good; 'twill go to waste.<br> Write something commonplacer-<br> Ed.) <br> Write for the average reader, fed<br>By pre-digested near-food's feeder,<br> But though my high ideals have fled,<br>I've never _seen_ an average reader.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many lines have been erased! <br> How many fancies have been shed! <br>How many failures might be traced<br> To this-this average-reader dread! <br> I've seen an average single bed; <br>I've seen an average garden-weeder; <br> I've seen an average cotton thread-<br>I've _never_ seen an average _reader_.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>L'ENVOI</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Most read of readers, if you've read<br> The works of any old succeeder,<br>You know that he, too, must have said:<br> 'I've never seen an Average Reader.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Franklin+P.+Adams">Franklin P. Adams</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392983" data-title="The Ballade Of The Average Reader de Franklin P. Adams" data-description="I try to touch the public taste, For thus I earn my daily bread. I try to write what folks will paste In scrap books after I am dead. By Public Craving I am led. (I' sooth, a most despotic leader) Yet, though I write for Tom and Ned, I've nev..."></div> </div> </div>

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