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THE LOST CHARACTER; EPIGRAM by JOHN GODFREY SAXE

First Line: JULIA IS MUCH CONCERNED, GOD WOT
Last Line: THE LAND WAS FORFEIT LONG AGO.

JULIA is much concerned, God wot,
For the good name -- she has n't got;
So mortgagors are often known
To guard the soil they deem their own,
As if, forsooth, they did n't know
The land was forfeit long ago.



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