REFLECTIONS IN A PRINTING-OFFICE

By Charles Godfrey Leland

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.