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Hermione


Strong-armed and virile, full of vim and yelp,
And offer you with these here cans to help,
Would you accept the Cosmic Urge's aid,
Or would you rise up free and unafraid
And say, 'My restless Personality
 Bids me return a negative to thee!'"

"Old scout," says he, "I've never really brought
My intellects to bear on that there thought!
I gets no help, I asks no help from none—
But I have noticed, bo, that one by one,
And soon or late, and gradual, day by day,
Most things in life eventual comes my way!
Into the Ashes Can the whole world goes,
Old hats, old papers, toys and styles and clo'es,
Eventual they dump 'em down the bay!"


VI


Symbolic Garbage Man! Sans rest or pause,
In steadfast faith work for thy sacred Cause!
Some time, perhaps, all piles of twisted bunk,
All half-baked faddists, heaps of mental junk,
Unto the waiting Scow we'll cart away
Eventual to dump 'em down the bay!