None can experience sting
Who Bounty — have not known —
The fact of Famine — could not be
Except for Fact of Corn —
Want — is a meagre Art
Acquired by Reverse —
The Poverty that was not Wealth —
Cannot be Indigence.
None can experience sting
Who Bounty — have not known —
The fact of Famine — could not be
Except for Fact of Corn —
Want — is a meagre Art
Acquired by Reverse —
The Poverty that was not Wealth —
Cannot be Indigence.
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