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Awful and grand, / Who holdest our fate / In the palm of thy hand, / Dost ever reflect / How one day thy ghost / To an Editor awf'ler / And grander will post? / Before him a great / Golden scroll is spread wide, / And a bottomless waste-basket / Yawns at his side.
With a swift searching glance / He reads through thy soul, / Then he looks at the basket, / Then looks at the scroll; / He purses his lips / And nibbles his pen, / And frowns for one long / Awful moment -- and then -- / Oh, Editor! -- think! if thy / Poor crumpled soul / Fall into the basket / And not in the scroll!