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Poet Analysis

First Line: YOUTH, NATURE, AND RELENTING JOVE
Last Line: HE BEAT ALL THREE -- AND BLEW IT OUT.
Subject(s): PHYSICIANS;
YOUTH, Nature, and relenting Jove,
To keep my lamp in strongly strove:
But Romanelli was so stout,
He beat all three -- and blew it out.



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