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Robert Fulton Tanner

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If a man could bite the giant hand         That catches and destroys him,         As I was bitten by a rat         While demonstrating my patent trap,         In my hardware store that day.         But a man can never avenge himself         On the monstrous ogre Life.         You enter the room    that's being born;         And then you must live    work out your soul,         Of the cross-current in life         Which Bring honor to the dead, who lived in shame.

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