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  1. Father, Mother, and Me, Sister and Auntie say All the people like us are We, And every one else is They.
  2. Now I possess and am possessed of the land where I would be, And the curve of half Earth's generous breast shall soothe and ravish me!
  3. Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished…
  4. But remember, please, the Law by which we live, We are not built to comprehend a lie, We can neither love nor pity nor forgive, If you make…
  5. There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, Or the way of a man with a maid; But the fairest way to me is a ship's upon the se…
  6. Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight …
  7. Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.
  8. There rise her timeless capitals of Empires daily born, Whose plinths are laid at midnight, and whose streets are packed at morn; And here …

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