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The hoss he is a splendud beast; / He is man's friend, as heaven desined, / And, search the world from west to east, / No honester you'll ever find!
Some calls the hoss "a pore dumb brute," / And yit, like Him who died fer you, / I say, as I theyr charge refute, / "Fergive; they know not what they do! "