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Robert Browning - The TwinsRobert Browning - The Twins
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``Give`` and ``It-shall-be-given-unto-you.`` I. Grand rough old Martin Luther  Bloomed fables—-flowers on furze, The better the uncouther:  Do roses stick like burrs? II. A beggar asked an alms  One day at an abbey-door, Said Luther; but, seized with qualms,  The abbot replied, ``We`re poor! III. ``Poor, who had plenty once,  ``When gifts fell thick as rain: ``But they give us nought, for the nonce,  ``And how should we give again?`` IV. Then the beggar, ``See your sins!  ``Of old, unless I err, ``Ye had brothers for inmates, twins,  ``Date and Dabitur. V. ``While Date was in good case  ``Dabitur flourished too: ``For Dabitur`s lenten face  ``No wonder if Date rue. VI. ``Would ye retrieve the one?  ``Try and make plump the other! ``When Date`s penance is done,  ``Dabitur helps his brother. VII. ``Only, beware relapse!``  The Abbot hung his head. This beggar might be perhaps  An angel, Luther said.
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