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For--doing as the Romans do at Rome? With such a bristling spirit wherefore quit The Land of Cakes for any land of wafers About the graceless images to flit And buzz and chafe importunate as chafers Longing to carve the carvers to Scotch collops?-- People who hold such absolute opinions Should stay at home in Protestant dominions Not travel like male Mrs. Trollopes. Gifted with noble tendency to climb Yet weak at the same time Faith is a kind of parasitic plant That grasps the nearest stem with tendril rings; And as the climate and the soil may grant So is the sort of tree to which it clings. 249 Considerthenbeforelike Hurlothrumbo You aim your club at any creed on earth Thatby the simple accident of birth YOU might have been High Priest to Mungo Jumbo. For me--through heathen ignorance perchance Not having knelt in Palestine--I feel None of that griffinish excess of zeal Some travelers would blaze with here in France. Dolls I can see in Virgin-like array Nor for a scuffle with the idols hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play If their "offense be rank should mine be RANCOR? Mild light and by degrees should be the plan To cure th louis vuitton authentic belts |
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