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THERE were two youths of equal age, / Wit, station, strength, and parentage; / They studied at the selfsame schools, / And shaped their thoughts by common rules.
One pondered on the life of man, / His hopes, his ending, and began / To rate the Market's sordid war / As something scarce worth living for.