“For to admire an' for to see,
For to be'old this world so wide—
It never done no good to me,
But I can't drop it if I tried!”

— Rudyard Kipling , book Barrack-Room Ballads

For to Admire, Stanza 2.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

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