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ANACREONTICS.
Let's all, whate'er our creed or cause, both Orthodox and Arians,
Join in this damnatory clause, Jeff Davis take aquarians!
For Greeley shall stop talking trash, and Bennett shall stop lying;
And Seward shall do something rash, and Hoppin set us crying,
And Sala grow respectable and cease to bore us,
And Bayard Taylor cease to tell his elephantine stories,[1]
Before a man of us forgets this day and all its glories.
- ↑ Elephantine—of, or relating to the elephant, also enormous, prodigious, colossal. It is here used in both senses.
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