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Alone and in a Circumstance
Reluctant to be told
A spider on my reticence
deliberately • determinately • impertinently
Assiduously crawled
And so much more at
Home than I
Immediately grew
I felt myself the
a
visitor
And hastily
hurriedly withdrew -
Revisiting my late abode
with articles of claim
I found it quietly assumed
for
as a Gymnasium
Where Tax asleep and
Title off
The Peasants
inmates of the Air
Perpetual complacence
presumption took
As each were only • lawful
special
Heir -
If any strike me on
the street
I can return the Blow -
If any seize
take my property
According to the Law
The Statute is my Learned
friend
But what redress can be
For an offence not anywhere
here
nor there
So not in Equity -
That Larceny of time
and mind
The marrow of the
Day
By spider, or forbid
it Lord
That I should specify -
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