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First Line: Withal a meagre man was aaron stark
Last Line: And then (and only then) did aaron laugh.


Withal a meagre man was Aaron Stark --
Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose:
A miser was he, with a miser's nose,
And eyes like little dollars in the dark.
His thin, pinched mouth was nothing but a mark;
And when he spoke there came like sullen blows
Through scattered fangs a few snarled words and close,
As if a cur were chary of its bark.

Glad for the murmur of his hard renown,
Year after year he shambled through the town, --
A loveless exile moving with a staff;
And oftentimes there crept into his ears
A sound of alien pity, touched with tears, --
And then (and only then) did Aaron laugh.






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