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The Poems of John Byrom

Edited by Adolphus William Ward

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DISARMING AN ENEMY.

Safer to reconcile a Foe, than make
A Conquest of him for the Conquest's Sake;
This tames his Pow'r of doing present Ill,
But That disarms him of the very Will.