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OH, turn not from the hum-ble Pig, / My child, or think him in-fra dig.
We oft hear lit-er-a-ry men / Boast of the in-flu-ence of the Pen; / Yet when we read in His-to-ry's Page / Of Hu-man Pigs in ev-er-y age, / From Cr[oe]-sus to the pres-ent day, / Is it, my child, so hard to say / (De-spite the Scribes' vain-glo-ri-ous boast) / What Pen has in-flu-enced Man the most?