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PETER BELL.
Part I.
The Squire said, "Sure as paradise
"Was lost to man by Adam's sinning,
"This leap is for us all too bold;
"Who Peter was, let that be told,
"And start from the beginning."
A potter, Sir, he was by trade,
Said I, becoming quite collected;
And, wheresoever he appeared,
Full twenty times was Peter feared
For once that Peter was respected.
He two and thirty years or more
Had been a wild and woodland rover;
Had heard the Atlantic surges roar
On farthest Cornwall's rocky shore,
And trod the cliffs of Dover.
