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Spoken by Mrs Hilson	A
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The music's done Be quiet Mr Durie	B
Your bell and whistle put me in a fury	B
Don't ring up yet sir I've a word to say	C
Before the curtain rises for the play	C
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Your pardon gentlefolks nor think me bold	D
Because I thus our worthy promoter scold	D
'Twas all feigned anger This enlightened age	E
Requires a RUSE to bring one on the stage	E
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Well here I am quite dazzled with the sight	F
Presented on this brilliant festal night	F
Where'er I turn whole rows of patrons sit	G
The house is full box gallery and pit	G
Who says the New York public are unkind	H
I know them well and plainly speak my mind	H
It is our right the ancient poet sung	I
He knew the value of a woman's tongue	I
With this I will defend ye and rehearse	J
FIVE glorious ACTS of yours in modern verse	J
Each one concluding with a generous deed	K
For Dunlap Cooper Woodworth Knowles Placide	K
'Twas nobly done ye patriots and scholars	L
Besides they netted twenty thousand dollars	L
A good round sum in these degenerate times	M
This bank note world so called in Halleck's rhymes	M
And proof conclusive you will frankly own	N
In liberal actions New York stands alone	N
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Though roams he oft 'mong green poetic bowers	L
The actor's path is seldom strewn with flowers	L
His is a silent secret patient toil	O
While others sleep he burns the midnight oil	O
Pores o'er his books thence inspiration draws	P
And waste's his life to merit your applause	P
O ye who come the laggard hours to while	Q
And with the laugh provoking muse to smile	Q
Remember this the mirth that cheers you so	R
Shows but the surface not the depths below	R
Then judge not lightly of the actor's art	K
Who smiles to please you with a breaking heart	K
Neglect him not in his hill climbing course	S
Nor treat him with less kindness than your horse	S
Up hill indulge him down the steep descent	K
Spare and don't urge him when his strength is spent	K
Impel him briskly o'er the level earth	T
But in the stable don't forget his worth	T
So with the actor while you work him hard	K
Be mindful of his claims to your regard	K
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But hold methinks some carping cynic here	U
Will greet my homely image with a sneer	V
Well let us see I would the monster view	W
Man with umbrageous whiskers is it you	W
Ah no I was mistaken every brow	X
Beams with benevolence and kindness now	X
Beauty and fashion all the circles grace	Y
And scowling Envy here were out of place	Y
On every side the wise and good appear	V
The very pillars of the State are here	U
There sit the doctors of the legal clan	Z
There all the city's rulers to a man	Z
Critics and editors and learned M D 's	A2
Buzzing and busy like a hive of bees	B2
And there as if to keep us all in order	C2
Our worthy friends the Mayor and the Recorder	C2
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Well peace be with you Friends of native worth	T
Yours is the power to call it into birth	T
Yours is the genial influence that smiles upon	D2
The budding flowerets opening to the sun	A
they all around us court your fostering hand	K
Rear them with care in beauty they'll expand	K
With grateful odors well repay your toil	O
Equal to those sprung from a foreign soil	O
and more Placides bask in your sunshine then	E2
The first of actors and the best of men	E2

George Pope Morris

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