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All praised the Legend more or less; / Some liked the moral, some the verse; / Some thought it better, and some worse / Than other legends of the past; / Until, with ill-concealed distress / At all their cavilling, at last / The Theologian gravely said: / "The Spanish proverb, then, is right; / Consult your friends on what you do, / And one will say that it is white, / And others say that it is red. " / And "Amen! " quoth the Spanish Jew.
"Six stories told! We must have seven, / A cluster like the Pleiades, / And lo! it happens, as with these, / That one is missing from our heaven. / Where is the Landlord? Bring him here; / Let the Lost Pleiad reappear."