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Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look,
The fields his study, nature was his book.

— Robert Bloomfield Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
That innocence can give,
When its resistless accents flow
To bid affection live.

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