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ADDITION by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: I AM MYSELF -- POOR, FOOLISH, WEAK
Last Line: I'LL ADD AS LONG AS FIGURES COME!
Subject(s): SELF;
I am myself -- poor, foolish, weak --
Plus other men to whom I speak,
The stronger men with whom I walk,
And watch their ways and heed their talk.

Some are alive with whom I tread,
And some are those that men call dead;
Some I accost in shop or street,
And some in blessed books I meet.

But wheresoe'er these friends may be,
Each is an increment for me, --
My life is all a happy sum;
I'll add as long as figures come!



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