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epigram on "the boy nobody knows the name of"; then he stuns me by enjoining himself, with a studious nonchalance, to

Write on a pocket pad what a pauper said
To a patch of purple asters at a whitewashed wall:
"Let every man be his own Jesus—that's enough."