<h2><SPAN name="SLANDER" id="SLANDER"></SPAN>Slander</h2>
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<span class="i0"><span class="letra">T</span>HE man who with the breath lent him by heaven<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Speaks words that soil the whiteness of a life<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Is but an assassin, for death is given<br/></span>
<span class="i2">As surely by the tongue, as by the knife.<br/></span>
<span class="i0">He does the devil’s basest work—no less—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Who deals in calumnies—who throws the mire<br/></span>
<span class="i0">On snowy robes whose hem he dare not press<br/></span>
<span class="i2">His foul lips to. The pity of it! <i>Liar</i>,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Yet half believed, by such as deem the good<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Or evil but the outcome of a mood.<br/></span>
<span class="i0">O slanderer, if fierce imps meet in hell<br/></span>
<span class="i2">For converse, when the long day’s toil is through,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Of <i>you</i> they have this worthy thing to tell,<br/></span>
<span class="i2"><i>He does the work we are ashamed to do!</i><br/></span></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_103" id="page_103"></SPAN>{103}</span></p>
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