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In the lame and limping metre of a barbarous Latin poet—
Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse,
Sit meum, amice, precor: quia certe sum mage pauper.
'Tis mine and it is likewise yours;
But and if this will not do,
Let it be mine, because that I
Am the poorer of the Two!
Nov. 1, 1801. First published in the Preface to Christabel, 1816. First collected 1893.