It seemed a very certain thing
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That, since the world began, No shepherd ever was like him, `From Paris down to Pan.= I said--"Old man, you've settled now `Another dream of youth; I always understood, I vow, `Mythology was truth= "Until I saw thy bandy legs `And sorrow-laden brow, But, sure as ever eggs is eggs, `I cannot think so now.= "For, an a shepherd thou should'st be, `Then very sure am I
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