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YOUNG ENGLAND.
I met a sage who had been deadA hundred years and more;
And still he said what he had said
A hundred years before:
Then, met I one (a rogue's sly son,)
Who printed what the other said,
And praised it, ev'n with tears:
Alas! he also had been dead
A hundred years.
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