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  • But from the first 'twas Peter's drift To be a kind of moral eunuch, He touched the hem of Nature's shift, Felt faintand never dared uplift The closest, all-concealing tunic.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      'Peter Bell theThird', pt.4, stanza11.

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