How the effort ebbs and flows;
And on the ear distinctly falls,
In the jangling
And the wrangling
How in talking each one bawls,
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In the laughing and the chaffing of the entertaining calls,
Of the calls,
Of the calls, calls, calls, calls,
Calls, calls, calls,
In the clamor and the clangor of the calls.
But the man who makes no calls, -
Not a call!
What a world of comfort true he enjoys withal!
In the silence of the night
How we shiver with affright,
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Lectures on English Novelists.
