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ANACREONTICS.
Will it make Dick Hunt less jolly, render Bierstadt's speech more slow,
Will our Jack look melancholy 'cause his cousin cannot show?'
Will Leutze say "poor fellow!" how I wish we had him here?"
Or the eye of Beard grow mellow with a sympathetic tear?
Eugene Benson's up the country, to enjoy what he calls Spring,
Though I think it great effront'ry here to speak of such a thing,
We have got no Spring (poor devils) in this wretched Western clime,
When the Summer's hottest revels follow close on Winter's rime;
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