 Wysłany: Wto 14:47, 22 Lut 2011 Temat postu: My skin he flay'dmy hair he cropt |
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There's neither chariotcoachnor mill Can move an inch except I will. ON A PEN. In youth exalted high in air Or bathing in the waters fair Nature to form me took delight And clad my body all in white. My person talland slender waist On either side with fringes graced; Tell me that tyrant man espied And dragg'd me from my mother's side No wonder now I look so thin; The tyrant stript me to the skin: My skin he flay'dmy hair he cropt: At head and foot my body lopt: And thenwith heart more hard than s one He pick'd my marrow from the bone. To vex me morehe took a freak To slit my tongue and make me speak Butthat which wonderful appears I speak to eyesand not to ears. He oft employs me in disguise 528 And makes me tell a thousand lies: To me he chiefly gives in trust To please his malice or his lust From me no secret he can hide: I see his vanity and pride: And my delight is to expose His follies to his greatest foes. All languages I can command Yet not a word I understand. Without my aidthe best divine In learning would not know a line: The lawyer must forget his pleading; The scholar could not show his reading Nay; man my master is my slave; I give command to kill or mbt shoes for men |
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