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Iron bars will bend and break.
•trad., “London Bridge Is Falling Down.”

And all my sloth and failure, all my passion
One with the sorrow of the Gaul and Goth,
And all our fireproof homes are burnt and ashen,
And in the moth-proof closets dwells the moth;
And every most unspeakable thing is spoken,
Rust in the rust-res...