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This poem is taken from PN Review 68, Volume 15 Number 6, July - August 1989.

A Reminiscence: The Two Beggars F.T. Prince

I think they came
Brother by brother,
One with no mind,
No love the other.
What could they lack
If, like good mates,
Trying to find
Merit in Yeats,
Leavis the lame
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