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A strong and striking Personality, / Worth several hundred thousand pounds -- / Of strict political Morality -- / Was walking in his park-like Grounds; / When, just as these began to pall on him / (I mean the Trees, and Things like that), / A Person who had come to call on him / Approached him, taking off his Hat.
He said, with singular veracity: / "I serve our Sea-girt Mother-Land / In no conspicuous capacity.