The labourers in the vineyard toil
(So numerous are their creeds)
Far less to cultivate the soil,
Than break each others' heads.
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'Write epigrams! why, Sir, there's nothing in it.
I would be bound the merest scribbler could
To write one in a minute.'
No doubt you could but then there would
Indeed, be nothing in it.
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The ambitious rage of Russia nought controls,
With her vast empire she'd unite the Poles.