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Book II. To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The King of dykes! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. "Here strip, my children here at once leap in, "Here prove who best can dash thro' thick and thin, "And who the most in love of dirt excel, "Or dark dexterity of groping well.