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TO ONE DETESTED

Sir, you're a veteran, revealed In history and fableAs warrior since you took the field, Defeating Abel.As Commissary later (or If not, in every cottageThe tale is) you contracted for A mess of pottage.In civil life you were, we read (And our respect increases)A man of peace—a man, indeed, Of thirty pieces.To paying taxes when you turned Your mind, or what you call so,A wide celebrity you earned— Saphira also.In every age, by various names, You've won renown in story,But on your present record flames A greater glory.Cain, Esau, and Iscariot, too, And Ananias, likewise,Each had peculiar powers, but who Could lie as Mike lies?