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THE HOUR-GLASS
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For somebody might shake it, and the sand
If it were shaken might run down on the instant.
Bridget
I don't understand a word you are saying. There's a crowd of people talking to your pupils.
Wise Man
Go out and find if they have found a man
Who did not understand me when I taught,
Or did not listen.
Bridget
It is a hard thing to be married to a man of learning that must always be having arguments.
[She goes out.
