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Reuben and Other Poems

by Robert Leighton

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John marvell'd greatly how he could deserve
This honour, he whose business was to serve,
But stopp'd no fine-spun theory to draw,
For well he knew his master's word was law;

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And whether said in earnest or in play,
John's only argument was to obey.