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Chapter 21 No.21

Rarities or, as he'd rather,

Rubbish such as stocks his own:

Need and greed (O strange) the Father

Fashioned not for him alone!

Whence-the comfort set a-strutting,

Whence-the outcry "Haste, behold!

Bard's breast open wide, past shutting,

Shows what brass we took for gold!"

            
            

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