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ANACREONTICS.
Circulation in this our commercial metropolis.
Why then he may just
Leave it out and be—blessed,
Or fill up with asterisks as he likes best)
And your poor tired muse
Beseechingly wooes
The balmiest breezes of eve to come at her—
In short, under every stage of thermometer
All times and all seasons are good for Champagne,
Especially that of P. C. K.
Some years ago there was going on
A great deal of talk about Du Brimont
And after that again years a few
There was still more talk about Cordon Bleu
And 'tis now the fashion to talk about Mumm
(The very name says, in its praises be dumb)
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