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The SPLEEN.
Ask
Plumbo, what's the dreadful cause,
That he's so gloomy seen,
Plumbo brings out with labour'd pause,
He's tortur'd with the Spleen.
That he's so gloomy seen,
Plumbo brings out with labour'd pause,
He's tortur'd with the Spleen.
But Dulness and the Spleen, my Friend,
In nature differ wide;
Dulness and Folly kindred blend,
While Wit to Spleen's ally'd.
In nature differ wide;
Dulness and Folly kindred blend,
While Wit to Spleen's ally'd.
The Man who with the Spleen's possest,
Is like an April day;
This hour by mirky clouds opprest,
The next serenely gay.
Is like an April day;
This hour by mirky clouds opprest,
The next serenely gay.
Not so the Man, within whose skull,
Dulness bears sov'reign rule;
Like a November day he's dull,
A semper idem fool.
Dulness bears sov'reign rule;
Like a November day he's dull,
A semper idem fool.
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