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I’m a strange contradiction: I’m new and I’m old,

I’m sometimes in tatters and sometimes in gold,

Though I never could read, yet letter’d I’m found,

Though blind I enlighten, though free I am bound.

I’m English, I’m German, I’m French, and I’m Dutch;

Some love me too dearly, some slight me too much.

I often die young, though I sometimes live ages,

And no Queen is attended by so many pages.

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