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POEMS. 59

��XLIV.

��'HPHE bone that has no marrow

  • What ultimate for that?

It is not fit for table, For beggar, or for cat.

A bone has obligations, A being has the same ;

A marrowless assembly Is culpabler than shame.

But how shall finished creatures A function fresh obtain ?

Old Nicodemus' phantom Confronting us again !

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