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Rh Bent o'er the desk, or, born to useful toils,

Been taught to make the paper which he soils,

Ploughed, delved, or plied the oar with lusty limb,

He had not sung of Wales, nor I of him.

As Sisyphus against the infernal steep

Rolls the huge rock whose motions ne'er may sleep,

So up thy hill, ambrosial Richmond! heaves