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Thus when a barber and collier fight,
The barber beats the luckless collier—white;
The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,
And, big with vengeance, beats the barber—black.
In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o’erspread,
And beats the collier and the barber—red;
Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss’d,
And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.

— Christopher Smart

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