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The world is full of orphans firstly those	A
Who are so in the strict sense of the phrase	B
But many a lonely tree the loftier grows	A
Than others crowded in the forest's maze	B
The next are such as are not doomed to lose	C
Their tender parents in their budding days	B
But merely their parental tenderness	D
Which leaves them orphans of the heart no less	E
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The next are 'only children' as they are styled	F
Who grow up children only since the old saw	G
Pronounces that an 'only' 's a spoilt child	F
But not to go too far I hold it law	G
That where their education harsh or mild	F
'Transgresses the great bounds of love or awe	H
The sufferers be't in heart or intellect	I
Whate'er the cause are orphans in effect	I
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But to return unto the stricter rule	J
As far as words make rules our common notion	K
Of orphans paints at once a parish school	J
A half starved babe a wreck upon life's ocean	K
A human what the Italians nickname 'mule'	J
A theme for pity or some worse emotion	K
Yet if examined it might be admitted	L
The wealthiest orphans are to be more pitied	M
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Too soon they are parents to themselves for what	N
Are tutors guardians and so forth compared	O
With Nature's genial genitors so that	P
A child of Chancery that Star Chamber ward	Q
I'll take the likeness I can first come at	P
Is like a duckling by Dame Partlett reared	R
And frights especially if 'tis a daughter	S
The old hen by running headlong to the water	S
	-
There is a commonplace book argument	T
Which glibly glides from every vulgar tongue	U
When any dare a new light to present	T
'If you are right then everybody's wrong '	-
Suppose the converse of this precedent	T
So often urged so loudly and so long	V
'If you are wrong then everybody's right '	-
Was ever everybody yet so quite	W
	-
Therefore I would solicit free discussion	K
Upon all points no matter what or whose	C
Because as ages upon ages push on	X
The last is apt the former to accuse	C
Of pillowing its head on a pincushion	X
Heedless of pricks because it was obtuse	Y
What was a paradox becomes a truth or	Z
A something like it as bear witness Luther	S
	-
The sacraments have been reduced to two	A2
And witches unto none though somewhat late	B2
Since burning aged women save a few	A2
Not witches only bitches who create	B2
Mischief in families as some know or knew	A2
Should still be singed but slightly let me state	B2
Has been declared an act of inurbanity	B2
Malg Sir Matthew Hale's great humanity	B2
	-
Great Galileo was debarred the sun	X
Because he fixed it and to stop his talking	C2
How earth could round the solar orbit run	X
Found his own legs embargoed from mere walking	C2
The man was well nigh dead ere men begun	X
To think his skull had not some need of caulking	C2
But now it seems he's right his notion just	B2
No doubt a consolation to his dust	B2
	-
Pythagoras Locke Socrates but pages	D2
Might be filled up as vainly as before	Z
With the sad usage of all sorts of sages	E2
Who in his lifetime each was deemed a bore	Z
The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages	D2
This they must bear with and perhaps much more	Z
The wise man's sure when he no more can share it he	B2
Will have a firm post obit on posterity	B2
	-
If such doom waits each intellectual giant	B2
We little people in our lesser way	F2
To life's small rubs should surely be more pliant	B2
And so for one will I as well I may	F2
Would that I were less bilious but oh fie on't	B2
Just as I make my mind up everyday	F2
To be a totus teres stoic sage	G2
The wind shifts and I fly into a rage	G2
	-
Temperate I am yet never had a temper	S
Modest I am yet with some slight assurance	H2
Changeable too yet somehow idem semper	S
Patient but not enamoured of endurance	H2
Cheerful but sometimes rather apt to whimper	S
Mild but at times a sort of Hercules furens	H2
So that I almost think that the same skin	X
For one without has two or three within	X
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Our hero was in canto the sixteenth	I2
Left in a tender moonlight situation	X
Such as enables man to show his strength	J2
Moral or physical On this occasion	X
Whether his virtue triumphed or at length	J2
His vice for he was of a kindling nation	X
Is more than I shall venture to describe	K2
Unless some beauty with a kiss should bribe	K2
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I leave the thing a problem like all things	H2
The morning came and breakfast tea and toast	B2
Of which most men partake but no one sings	H2
The company whose birth wealth worth have cost	B2
My trembling lyre already several strings	H2
Assembled with our hostess and mine host	B2
The guests dropped in the last but one Her Grace	H2
The latest Juan with his virgin face	H2
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Which best is to encounter ghost or none	X
'Twere difficult to say but Juan looked	B2
As if he had combated with more than one	X
Being wan and worn with eyes that hardly brooked	B2
The light that through the Gothic windows shone	X
Her Grace too had a sort of air rebuked	B2
Seemed pale and shivered as if she had kept	B2
A vigil or dreamt rather more than slept	B2

George Gordon Byron

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