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Preserve me! from the shapes that stalk
In memory round a village walk;
The Doctor, with his last year's news,
Tithes, turnpikes, politics, and pews;
Death's deputy, the Æsculapius,
Telling who last has got his capias,
The solemn Chairman of the Sessions,
Doling out knaves' and fools' confessions;
And, bitterest pill of all the three,
That bore of bores, the ex-M.P.
In memory round a village walk;
The Doctor, with his last year's news,
Tithes, turnpikes, politics, and pews;
Death's deputy, the Æsculapius,
Telling who last has got his capias,
The solemn Chairman of the Sessions,
Doling out knaves' and fools' confessions;
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That bore of bores, the ex-M.P.
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