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First Line: An unashamed tyrant in every vice
Last Line: My god, and can it be thou diedst for such?
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth


An unashamed tyrant in every vice --
An abject slave in cringing cowardice --
Child, in all things save in simplicity --
Brute, save in irresponsibility --
Believer, but in sense and taste and touch --
My God, and can it be Thou diedst for such?




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