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MORTAL COMBAT by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE

First Line: IT IS BECAUSE YOU WERE MY FRIEND
Last Line: AND BE A MAN LIKE OTHER MEN.
Subject(s): DISCONTENT; FRIENDSHIP; MANKIND; DISSATISFACTION; HUMAN RACE;
IT is because you were my friend,
I fought you as the devil fights.
Whatever fortune God may send,
For once I set the world to rights.

And that was when I thrust you down,
And stabbed you twice and twice again,
Because you dared take off your crown,
And be a man like other men.



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