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The Bone That Has No Marrow;

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The bone that has no marrow;     What ultimate for that?     It is not fit for table,     For beggar, or for cat.     A bone has obligations,     A being has the same;     A marrowless assembly     Is culpabler than shame.     But how shall finished creatures     A function fresh obtain? --     Old Nicodemus' phantom     Confronting us again!

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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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