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for a Tyger, when once he hath tasted human flesh,in pursuit of his prey is more dangerous to menand chooseth daintily among them; like those cannibalswho yet, for all their courtesy (so travellers tell)and Spartan stoicism, gaily devour their kind.
40 From the terrifying jungle of his haunted childhoodwhere prehistoric horror still lurketh untamed,man by slow steps withdrew, and from supply of needfell to pursuit of pleasur, untill his luxurysupplanting brutality invented a new shame;for with civilization a caste of cooks was bred,not specialized in structure—as with bees or ants—but serviceable of either sex and disciplin'din such cultured tradition that the grammar of itwould stock a library; nor are their banquets spredd50to please the palate only; the eye is invitedby dainty disguises and the nostril with scents,nay even the ear is fed, and on the gather'd guestsa trifling music playeth, dispelling all thought,that while they fill the belly, the empty mind may floatlightly in the full moonshine of o'erblown affluence.Thus, when in London city a Guild of merchants dine,one dinner's cost would ease a whole bye-street of want,
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