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Ad Magistrum Ludi

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Now in the sky And on the hearth of Now in a drawer the direful cane, That sceptre of the⁠ ⁠… reign, And the long hawser, that on the back Of Marsyas fell with many a whack, Twice hardened out of Scythian hides, Now sleep till the October ides.
In summer if the boys be well.

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