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Title: The Vampire Author: Rudyard Kipling [More Titles by Kipling] The verses--as suggested by the painting by Philip Burne Jones, first exhibited at the new gallery in London in 1897. A fool there was and he made his prayer Oh the years we waste and the tears we waste A fool there was and his goods he spent Oh the toil we lost and the spoil we lost The fool we stripped to his foolish hide And it isn't the shame and it isn't the blame It's coming to know that she never knew why -THE END- GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |