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Avarice

What If you saw a selfish dove
Heap & heap new piles of grain And While his fellows tried in vain for pity or for love
Or perchance as for love All his fellows tried in vain
He, still adding mound to mound
They all perishing around.

Could you for a moment keep
Indignation from your breast –
Would you not disperse the heap
In an instant to Thus usurped, to all the rest?
Aye! you'll say – but who e'er heard
Of so infamous a bird?

None! too – & yet a learned man
A divine – a bishop too.† † Valey
Ask'd – now answer if you can –
Ask'd, e'en such a man as you
If among the human race
Such flagitious things took place?

Identifier: | JB/110/147/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 110.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	110	Main Headings
Folio number	147	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	avarice / the glowworm
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	1823
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1823
Notes public		ID Number	36137
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