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He Put The Belt Around My Life,

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He put the belt around my life, --     I heard the buckle snap,     And turned away, imperial,     My lifetime folding up     Deliberate, as a duke would do     A kingdom's title-deed, --     Henceforth a dedicated sort,     A member of the cloud.     Yet not too far to come at call,     And do the little toils     That make the circuit of the rest,     And deal occasional smiles     To lives that stoop to notice mine     And kindly ask it in, --     Whose invitation, knew you not     For whom I must decline?

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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