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How many a father have I seen, / A sober man, among his boys, / Whose youth was full of foolish noise, / Who wears his manhood hale and green:
And dare we to this fancy give, / That had the wild oat not been sown, / The soil, left barren, scarce had grown / The grain by which a man may live?