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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
How should they? Nor do they much love his friendSokrates: but those two have fellowship:Sokrates often comes to hear him read,And never misses if he teach a piece.Both, being old, will soon have company,Sit with their peers above the talk. Meantime,He lives as should a statue in its niche;Cold walls enclose him, mostly darkness there,Alone, unless some foreigner uncouthBreaks in, sits, stares an hour, and so departs,Brain-stuffed with something to sustain his life,Dry to the marrow mid much merchandize.How should such know and love the man?Why, mark!Even when I told the play and got the praise,There spoke up a brisk little somebody,Critic and whippersnapper, in a rageTo set things right: "The girl departs from truth!
