And when my creditors appear,
And threaten savagely to sue,
And say the time is overdue,
An echo from the shelf I hear, -
"Too true, too true!"
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And so it prates with mimic awe
At all I do; and if to-day
I name a goal, it seems to say, -
As if rehearsing some old saw, -
"Jamais, Jamais!"