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``_IT_ should press, ah! never more.= [Illustration: 024] Said I, while the coin revealing, "Robert, I've a tender ``feeling For the Force there's no concealing, and thy manly form ``adore; Thee I ne'er to hurt or slay meant; take, oh! take this ``humble payment-- Take thy grasp from off my raiment, and thy person from ``my door; Though I like thee past expression, though I venerate the ``corps, ```Fain I'd bid thee '_Au revoir!_'= And I view with approbation that official's hesitation, For his carnal inclination with his duty was at war; But that Peeler, though he muttered, knew which side his ``bread was buttered, But a word or two he uttered, and his choking grasp fore- ``bore-- And he, when his clutching fingers from their choking grasp ``forebore, ```Vanished, and was seen no more.= Oft at night when I'm returning, and the foot-path scarce ``discerning-- Whiskey-fumes within me burning like a molten reservoir-- In imagination kneeling, oft in fancy I'm appealing To the kind and manly feeling of that giant Trap once more-- To the tender kindly feeling of the Trap I saw before-- ```Vanished now for ever more!= LINES BY A (PAWN)BROKEN-HEARTED YOUTH. [Illustration: 026] Oh! take back the ticket thou gavest, And give me my watch and my ring,
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