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EPITAPH ON A PESSIMIST by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "I'M SMITH OF STOKE, AGED SIXTY-ODD"
Last Line: MY DAD HAD DONE THE SAME
Subject(s): PESSIMISM;
I'M Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd,
I've lived without a dame
From youth-time on; and would to God
My dad had done the same.



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