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THE ICONOCLASTIC RUSTIC

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THE APROPOS ACORN

Reposing ’neath some spreading trees, A populistic bumpkinAmused himself by offering these Reflections on a pumpkin:"I would not, if the choice were mine,Grow things like that upon a vine,For how imposing it would beIf pumpkins grew upon a tree.”
Like other populists, you'll note, Of views enthusiastic,He’d learned by heart, and said by rote A creed iconoclastic;

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