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Therefore, since no leg to stand on

Thus I'm left with—joy or grief

Be the issue—I abandon

Hope or care you name me Chief!

Chief and king and Lord's anointed,

I?—who never once have wished

Death before the day appointed:

Lived and liked, not poohed and pished!