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POEMS. 45

XXXI.

A MAN.

��FATE slew him, but he did not drop She felled he did not fall Impaled him on her fiercest stakes He neutralized them all.

��She stung him, sapped his firm advance, But, when her worst was done,

And he, unmoved, regarded her, Acknowledged him a man.

�� �

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