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Bath, n.
[_]
A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
[The man who taketh a steam bath]
The man who taketh a steam bathHe loseth all the skin he hath,
And, for he's boiled a brilliant red,
Thinketh to cleanliness he's wed,
Forgetting that his lungs he's soiling
With dirty vapors of the boiling.
Richard Gwow.
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