Undue Significance a Starving Man Attaches

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Undue significance a starving man attaches / To food / Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless, / And therefore good.

Partaken, it relieves indeed, but proves us / That spices fly / In the receipt. It was the distance / Was savory.

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