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A MAN.
Fate slew him, but he did not drop; / She felled -- he did not fall -- / Impaled him on her fiercest stakes -- / He neutralized them all.
She stung him, sapped his firm advance, / But, when her worst was done, / And he, unmoved, regarded her, / Acknowledged him a man.