This subject is unto the foulest pen, <br />Or fairest handled by the sons of men. <br />'Twill also show what is upon it writ, <br />Be it wisely, or nonsense for want of wit, <br />Each blot and blur it also will expose <br />To thy next readers, be they friends or foes. <br /> <br />Comparison. <br /> <br />Some souls are like unto this blank or sheet, <br />Though not in whiteness. The next man they meet, <br />If wise or fool, debauched or deluder, <br />Or what you will, the dangerous intruder <br />May write thereon, to cause that man to err <br />In doctrine or in life, with blot and blur. <br />Nor will that soul conceal from who observes, <br />But show how foul it is, wherein it swerves. <br />A reading man may know who was the writer, <br />And, by the hellish nonsense, the inditer.<br /><br />John Bunyan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/upon-a-sheet-of-white-paper/
