Ambition, and Other Poems/Pot and Kettle

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Pot and Kettle
'Away!' I cried, to a spiteful Wasp,
 Who challenged me to fight;
'Would you, a paltry dram of flesh,
 Attack a hundredweight?
Go, little upstart, try your mettle
On some old spider, bug or beetle.'

'Your pardon, Sir,' the Wasp replied:
 'If man attacks a God in Heaven,
Why can't a Wasp attack a man—
 Which is the most uneven?
This wise discourse, on power and mettle,
Should please your Masters—Pot and Kettle.'

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