HOW ANNANDALE WENT OUT
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They called it Annandale--and I was thereTo flourish, to find words, and to attend:Liar, physician, hypocrite, and friend,I watched him; and the sight was not so fairAs one or two that I have seen elsewhere:An apparatus not for me to mend--A wreck, with hell between him and the end,Remained of Annandale; and I was there. “I knew the ruin as I knew the man;So put the two together, if you can,Remembering the worst you know of me.Now view yourself as I was, on the spot--With a slight kind of engine. Do you see?Like this.... You wouldn’t hang me? I thought not.”
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