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- THE SAINT AND THE HUNCHBACK
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- i{Hunchback.} Stand up and lift your hand and bless
- A man that finds great bitterness
- In thinking of his lost renown.
- A Roman Caesar is held down
- Under this hump.
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- i{Saint.} God tries each man
- According to a different plan.
- I shall not cease to bless because
- I lay about me with the taws
- That night and morning I may thrash
- Greek Alexander from my flesh,
- Augustus Caesar, and after these
- That great rogue Alcibiades.
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- i{Hunchback.} To all that in your flesh have stood
- And blessed, I give my gratitude,
- Honoured by all in their degrees,
- But most to Alcibiades.
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