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The Poems of John Byrom

Edited by Adolphus William Ward

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BONE AND SKIN.

AN EPIGRAM.


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Bone and Skin,
Two millers thin,
Would starve the town, or near it;—
But be it known
To Skin and Bone,
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.