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hing.
There's neither chariotcoachnor mill
Can move an inch except I will.
ON A PEN.
In youth exalted high in air
Or bathing in the waters fair
Nature to form me took delight
And clad my body all in white.
My person talland slender waist
On either side with fringes graced;
Tell me that tyrant man espied
And dragg'd me from my mother's side
No wonder now I look so thin;
The tyrant stript me to the skin:
My skin he flay'dmy hair he cropt:
At head and foot my body lopt:
And thenwith heart more hard than s one
He pick'd my marrow from the bone.
To vex me morehe took a freak
To slit my tongue and make me speak
Butthat which wonderful appears
I speak to eyesand not to ears.
He oft employs me in disguise
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And makes me tell a thousand lies:
To me he chiefly gives in trust
To please his malice or his lust
From me no secret he can hide:
I see his vanity and pride:
And my delight is to expose
His follies to his greatest foes.
All languages I can command
Yet not a word I understand.
Without my aidthe best divine
In learning would not know a line:
The lawyer must forget his pleading;
The scholar could not show his reading
Nay; man my master is my slave;
I give command to kill or [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
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