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With a whole bale of isms tied together with
rhyme,

He might get on alone, spite of brambles and
boulders,

But he can't with that bundle he has on his

shoulders,

The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reach

ing

Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and
preaching;

His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty
well,

But he'd rather by half make a drum of the
shell,

And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem,

At the head of a march to the last new Jerusa-
lem.