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So, when Sir John met such a sudden doom
It almost seem'd as if the Fates had said
“Here is an honest, red-faced kind old man
“Who never has done harm to any one—
“But yet, because of bungling human laws
“He stands for ever, whilst he lives and breathes
“As an insuperable obstacle,
“Marring the moments of that luckless pair
“Whose vast capacity for happiness
“He blights unwittingly.”
It almost seem'd as if the Fates had said
“Here is an honest, red-faced kind old man
“Who never has done harm to any one—
“But yet, because of bungling human laws
“He stands for ever, whilst he lives and breathes
“As an insuperable obstacle,
“Marring the moments of that luckless pair
“Whose vast capacity for happiness
“He blights unwittingly.”
And then it seem'd
As if the three relentless beldames plann'd,
And caused the little guileless downy beast
To burrow near that Sussex highway road.
As if the three relentless beldames plann'd,
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To burrow near that Sussex highway road.
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