The Study of Poetry • Paragraph 1711
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Give your first groan--compunction’s at work; And soft! from a Jew you mount to a Turk. Lo, Micah,--the selfsame beard on chin He was four times already converted in! Here’s a knife, clip quick--it’s a sign of grace-- Or he ruins us all with his hanging-face.