AY the Lord deliver 

 us all from Cant. 

 May the Lord, what- 

 ever else He do or for- 

 bear, teach us to look 

 facts honestly in the face, and to 

 beware (with a kind of shudder) 

 of smearing them over with our 

 despicable and damnable palaver, 

 into incognizability. O Heaven, 

 it is the most accursed sin of man; 

 and done everywhere, at present, 

 on the streets and high places at 

 noonday! Very seriously I say, 

 and pray as my chief orison, May 

 the Lord deliver us from Cant! 



CARL Y L E 



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