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"THEY called it Annandale - and I was there
To flourish, to find words, and to attend:
Liar, physician, hypocrite, and friend, / I watched him; and the sight was not so fair
As one or two that I have seen elsewhere:
An apparatus not for me to mend -
A wreck, with hell between him and the end, / Remained of Annandale; and I was there.
"I knew the ruin as I knew the man; / So put the two together, if you can,
Remembering the worst you know of me.
Now view yourself as I was, on the spot -
With a slight kind of engine. Do you see?
Like this. You wouldn't hang me? I thought not. "