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First Line: If it chance your eye offend you
Last Line: When your sickness is your soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology


If it chance your eye offend you,
Pluck it out, lad, and be sound:
'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you,
And many a balsam grows on ground.

And if your hand or foot offend you,
Cut it off, lad, and be whole;
But play the man, stand up and end you,
When your sickness is your soul.






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