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 [20] THE POEM ON THE WALL

clumsy poem on the inn-wall none cared to see. With bird-droppings and moss's growth the letters were blotched away. There came a guest with heart so full, that though a page to the Throne, He did not grudge with his broidered coat to wipe off the dust, and read. [46]