Suspicious, timid, he is much afraid

Of trick and plot—he dreads to be betray'd;

He shuns all friendship, for he finds they lend,

When lads begin to call each other friend.

Yet self with self has war; the tempting sight

Of fruit on sale provokes his appetite;—

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See! how, he walks the sweet seduction by;

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That he is tempted, costs him first a sigh—