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wagemeyer download
wagemeyer download
Name: wagemeyer download
Category: Free
Published: grahunelre1970
Language: English
Though born a statesman, still unknown to Fame, Cursed liy a term so bare and uncuphonious. Of your career, and divers other things. You found yourself a tanner — not a duke. Whilst still you lay enshrined within your cradle — So, now my Lawies, when yoiir wordy fray " Bill Jackson." Ah, oiwrapped in such a name, A stupid oversight — by Nature's fluke, Has lulled, at length, although your eyes still glisten Man's fate ere birth, refused to leave you stranded Upon the desert shores of Common-place ; Behind the arras of a homely ))hrase. Your infant jaws contained no silver ladle : Employed those bards to sing a roundelay. To struggle on, unarmed and single-handed. The while the bard, in plaintive number, sings With warlike ardour, prithee turn away They might have blighted you with simple " Bill." And yet the fairies, who are said to trace A human snowdrop peeping from the earth — ■ LOCAL LYRICS. Of hostile arms lapsed for a season, they Your " proper xjerson " hidden from men's gaze They named you " Lawies." Had they wished you ill. You might have died a rat, like poor Polonius ; 'Tis said, by whom I know not, at your birth. To some cool shade, where you, in peace, may listen
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