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Page 211 - tisn't the genuine thing. Matthew Arnold sings a little ditty entitled ' Bottles ; or, the Deceased Wife's Sister.' I take the suffering middle class, I read each vice, each weakness clear ; Eyeing it calmly through my glass, And say, ' Thou ailest here and here. ' Abounds thy knowledge in defect, All stunted is thy beauty...
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