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Title: Valediction Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [More Titles by Goethe] I ONCE was fond of fools, And bid them come each day; The carpenter to play; Another to supply, To move it by-and-by, And knock'd against each other; My anger could not smother, At this they were offended And so our friendship ended. Since that, I've wiser been, And sit beside my door; I cry, "Appear no more!" At this he's angry too: And pray, sir, who are you? And revel at the fair; And folks revile us ne'er. For now they leave my door--
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