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THE BALLAD OF THE DISCUS.

Great tears ran down the Greek man's cheeks,

Great tears of bitter sorrow,

Rewards were vain; they found it not,

Nor on the morrow's morrow.

Days past, there came no news of it;

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But one day unexpected,

When hopes had long been given up,

The thing was resurrected.

A man that drove a two-wheeled cart

Was ushered by a peeler,

Who told how in the old junk-shop

Of this renowned iron dealer

He saw that curious thing of theirs,

And guessed it wasn't his'n,

And so he nabbed the varmint there,

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