There's a _Seale_, and four _Martens_, with skins to our wishes;
There's a _Rae_ and two _Roches_, and all sorts of fishes;
There's no sheep, but a _Sheppard_--"the last of the pigtails"--
And a _Ramsbottom_--chip of the old famous big tails.
Now to mention in brief a few trifles extraneous,
By connoisseurs class'd, "odds and ends miscellaneous:"--
There's a couple of _Bells_--frights--nay, Hottentots real!
A _Trollope_, of elegance _le beau ideal_.
Of _Browne_, _Green_, and _Scarlett_ men, surely a sack or more,
Besides three whole _White_ men, preserved with a _Blakemore_.
There's a _Hill_, and a _Hutt_, and a _Kirk_, and--astounding!
The entire of old _Holland_ this house to be found in.
There's a _Flower_, with a perfume so strong 'twould upset ye all;
And the beauty of _Somers_ is here found perpetual.
There's a _Bodkin_, a _Patten_, a _Rose_, and a _Currie_,
And a man that's still _Hastie_, though ne'er in a hurry.
There is _Cole_ without smoke, a "sou'-_West_" without danger;
And a _Grey_, that to place is at present a stranger.
There's a _Peel_,--but enough! if you're a virtuoso
You'll see for yourself, and next month you may do so;
When, if you don't say this _New House_ is a wonder,
We're Dutchmen--that's all!--and at once knuckle under.
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