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Filled with a zeal to serve my fellow men, / For years I criticised their prose and verges: / Pointed out all their blunders of the pen, / Their shallowness of thought and feeling; then / Damned them up hill and down with hearty curses!
They said: "That's all that he can do -- just sneer, / And pull to pieces and be analytic.