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A Collection of Poems. By Ernest Radford

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73

JEREMIAH AT THE CHESHIRE CHEESE

O Heart of man!
What ills torment, what passions tear
The heart of man!
We Rhymers, gathered in a clan,
Disconsolate, aghast, declare
Thy burden is too hard to bear
O Heart of man!