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"The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 2, December, 1857"

Our
means are limited, etc., etc., etc.
"Yours with respect."

HERE IT IS,--WITH THE _SLIGHT ALTERATIONS!_

Come! fill a fresh bumper,--for why should we go
logwood
While the still reddens our cups as they flow?
decoction
Pour out the still bright with the sun,
dye-stuff
Till o'er the brimmed crystal the shall run.
half-ripened apples
The their life-dews have bled;
taste sugar of lead
How sweet is the of the !
rank poisons _wines!!!_
For summer's lie hid in the
stable-boys smoking long-nines.
That were garnered by
scowl howl scoff sneer
Then a , and a , and a , and a ,
strychnine and whiskey, and ratsbane and beer!
For
In cellar, in pantry, in attic, in hall,
Down, down, with the tyrant that masters us all!


The company said I had been shabbily treated, and advised me to charge
the committee double,--which I did.


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