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Why?
When, ere the age of paper mills,The ancients wrote their notes and bills
And duns and letters and receipts
On roughly-pressed papyrus sheets
Made from the tall cyperus reeds
Which flourish where the Nile recedes,
How stupid were their minds and dark!
Why didn't they think of white-birch bark?
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