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NEW POEMS In vain my verse I plane and bevel,

Like Banville's rhyming devotees;

In vain by many an artful swivel

Lug in my meaning by degrees;

I'm sure to hear my Henley cavil;

And grovelling prostrate on my knees,

Devote his body to the seas,

His correspondence to the devil!

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