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- ALL THINGS CAN TEMPT ME
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- ALL things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
- One time it was a woman's face, or worse --
- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
- Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
- Than this accustomed toil. When I was young,
- I had not given a penny for a song
- Did not the poet Sing it with such airs
- That one believed he had a sword upstairs;
- Yet would be now, could I but have my wish,
- Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.
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