WISE DUMB
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to be wise as the sweet apple
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the desirable dangle from a tree
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to offer oneself to be consumed
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by the warring disobedient defiant.
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to be dumb as the bitter turnip
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the comforted hiding under the ground
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to keep unto self to be rotted
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by the evident elemental valence.
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