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In Bacon see the culminating prime

Of Anglo-Saxon intellect and crime.

He dies and Nature, settling his affairs,

Parts his endowments among us, his heirs:

To every one a pinch of brain for seed,

And, to develop it, a pinch of greed.

Each thrifty heir, to make the gift suffice,

Buries the talent to manure the vice.