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[There isn't a man living who does not have at least a / sneaking reverence for a horse-shoe. -- "Evening Post".]
Thus the poor ass whose appetite has ne'er / Known than the thistle any sweeter fare / Thinks all the world eats thistles. Thus the clown, / The wit and Mentor of the country town, / Grins through the collar of a horse and thinks / Others for pleasure do as he for drinks, / Though secretly, because unwilling still / In public to attest their lack of skill.
Each dunce whose life and mind all follies mar / Believes as he is all men living are -- / His vices theirs, their understandings his; / Naught that he knows not, all he fancies, "is".
How odd that any mind such stuff should boast! / How natural to write it in the "Post"!