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I lost a World the other day!
I lost a World the other day!
Has Anybody found?
You’ll know it by the Row of Stars
Around its forehead bound.
A Rich man might not notice it
Yet to my frugal Eye,
Of more Esteem than Ducats
Oh find it Sir for me!
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