O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
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