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NATURA NATURANS.
NATURE concerns herself not much with man.So but the stream of race run full and free,
All's well for her; the individual she
Leaves for himself to shift as best he can.
“Sleek men, that sleep o' nights”, best fit her plan,
(As Caesar's), such as unconflictingly,
Bound to the car-wheels of the Will-to-Be,
Eat, drink and slumber out their little span.
Of this it is that she, from birth to death,
The human animal still pampereth,
—Those, in whom soul place over body claims,
Rebating,—and that women, who the tools
Immediate are, by which she shapes her aims,
Do for the most part love and tender fools.
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