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AD I but lived a hundred years ago I might have gone, as I have gone this year, By Warmwell Cross on to a Cove I know, And Time have placed his finger on me there:

"You see that man?"—I might have looked, and said, "O yes: I see him. One that boat has brought Which dropped down Channel round Saint Alban's Head. So commonplace a youth calls not my thought."

"You see that man?"—"Why yes; I told you; yes: Of an idling town-sort; thin; hair brown in hue;