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1913 · PDF PAGE 4

The Writing On the Ground

…rd, serene and suav When trouble came, went tramping by ; Closed one, and winked the other eye. How pleasantly you must have smiled: ““T left them, and I left them wild Though certainly they had abhorred| The task of locking up a lord. For a more tragic role you played Your master neatly who betrayed. His shame and torture turned your leer To a snarl, your drab’s smile to a sneer; Quickened, when afterwards your help He needed, to a currish yelp. Now—-so the wheel of Fortune whirls !— Your kindly love for little girls And ardour for the fine ol…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 3

The Writing On the Ground

…eing in meanness and disloyalty to afriend; that friend unable to defend himself, gone beyond these petty strifes and falsehoods. We are left to resent it for him—we are worth nothing if we do not make our resentment felt and that strongly. This false friend, this despicable creature, does not stop at mere lies and slander—he hires a jackal, a low lackey, to help him in his ghoulish task of desecrating the dead. That pamphlet* which shocked and disgusted us all was written for his filthy money. The penny-a-liner prostitute who wrote it has only…

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