Versos English George Meredith Xxviii

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—What thinks your friend, kind sir? We have escaped But partly that old half-tamed wild beast’s paw Whereunder woman, the weak thing, was shaped: Men, too, have known the cramping enemy In grim brute force, whom force of brain shall awe: Him our deliverer, await we!