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HIS OPINION IS THAT HE ATTRACTS HIS CREDITOR TOWARDS HIM BY.......... by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN

First Line: LET DOCTORS DISSERTATE ABOUT ATTRACTION
Last Line: MY THREE HALF-CROWNS' TORMENTOR TOW'RDS MYSELF!

Let Doctors dissertate about Attraction,
And preach long lectures upon Gravitation ,
Indulging thereanent in speculation
For which no human creature cares one fraction,
'Tis all mere twaddle-talk and iteration:
Of these mysterious modes of Nature's action
There never yet was any explanation
To anybody's perfect satisfaction.
However, this I stubbornly believe,
And for the proof thereof see no great need
To take down Isaac Newton from the shelf-
That, move whither I will-noon, morn, or eve,
I manage to attract with awful speed
My Three Half- Crowns' Tormentor tow'rds myself!




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