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If I could have lived another year / I could have finished my flying machine, / And become rich and famous.
Hence it is fitting the workman / Who tried to chisel a dove for me / Made it look more like a chicken.
For what is it all but being hatched, / And running about the yard, / To the day of the block?
Save that a man has an angel's brain, / And sees the ax from the first!