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By a chance bond together,”
                                
                                
                                
                                
                            
                                        
                                         "I am a parcel of vain strivings tied" http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/3247.html, st. 1 (1841) 
Context: I am a parcel of vain strivings tied
By a chance bond together,
Dangling this way and that, their links
Were made so loose and wide,
Methinks,
For milder weather.
                                    
 
        
     
                             
                             
                             
                             
                            