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Address of the carrier of the New York Mirror on the first day of the year	A
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Air Songs of Shepherds and Rustical Roundelays	B
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Two years have elapsed since the verse of S W See Notes	B
Met your bright eyes like a fanciful gem	C
With that kind of stanza the muse will now trouble you	D
She often frolicks with one G P M	C
As New Year approaches she whispers of coaches	B
And lockets and broaches See Notes without any end	E
Of sweet rosy pleasure of joy without measure	F
And plenty of leisure to share with a friend	E
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'Tis useless to speak of the griefs of society	G
They overtake us in passing along	H
And public misfortunes in all their variety	G
Need not be told in a holyday song	H
The troubles of Wall street I'm sure that you all meet	I
And they're not at all sweet but look at their pranks	B
Usurious cravings and discounts and shavings	B
With maniac ravings and Lombardy banks See Notes	B
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'Tis useless to speak of our dealers in cotton too	D
Profits and losses but burden the lay	J
The failure of merchants should now be forgotten too	D
Nor sadden the prospects of this festive day	J
Though Fortune has cheated the hope near completed	K
And cruelly treated the world mercantile	L
The poet's distresses when Fortune oppresses	B
Are greater he guesses but still he can smile	L
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'Tis useless to speak of the gas lights See Notes so beautiful	M
Shedding its beams through the mist of the night	N
Eagles and tigers and elephants dutiful	M
Dazzle the vision with columns of light	N
The lamb and the lion ask editor Tryon	O
His word you'll rely on are seen near the Park	P
From which such lights flow out as wind can not blow out	Q
Yet often they go out and all's in the dark	P
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'Tis useless to speak of the seats on the Battery See Notes	B
They're too expensive to give to the town	R
Then our aldermen think it such flattery	G
If the public have leave to sit down	R
Our fortune to harden they show Castle Garden	O
Kind muses your pardon but rhyme it I must	S
Where soldiers were drilling you now must be willing	T
To pay them a shilling so down with the dust	S
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'Tis useless to speak of our writers poetical See Notes	B
Of Halleck and Bryant and Woodworth to write	N
There are others whose trades are political	M
Snowden and Townsend and Walker and Dwight	N
There's Lang the detector and Coleman the hector	F
And Noah the protector and judge of the Jews	B
And King the accuser and Stone the abuser	F
And Grim the confuser of morals and news	B
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'Tis useless to speak of the many civilities	B
Shown to Fayette See Notes in this country of late	U
Or even to mention the splendid abilities	B
Clinton possesses for ruling the state	U
The union of water and Erie's bright daughter	F
Since Neptune has caught her they'll sever no more	V
And Greece and her troubles the rhyme always doubles	B
Have vanished like bubbles that burst on the shore	V
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'Tis useless to speak of Broadway and the Bowery	G
Both are improving and growing so fast	W
Who would have thought that old Stuyvesant's dowery	G
Would hold in its precincts a play house See Notes at last	W
Well wonder ne'er ceases but daily increases	B
And pulling to pieces the town to renew	D
So often engages the thoughts of our sages	B
That when the fit rages what will they not do	D
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'Tis useless to speak of the want of propriety	G
In forming our city so crooked and long	H
Our ancestors bless them were fond of variety	G
'Tis naughty to say that they ever were wrong	H
Tho' strangers may grumble and thro' the streets and stumble	M
Take care they don't tumble through crevices small	X
For trap doors we've plenty on sidewalk and entry	G
And no one stands sentry to see they don't fall	X
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'Tis useless to speak of amusements so various	B
Of opera singers See Notes that few understand	Y
Of Kean's See Notes reputation so sadly precarious	B
When he arrived in this prosperous land	Y
The public will hear him and hark how they cheer him	Z
Though editors jeer him we all must believe	A2
He pockets the dollars of sages and scholars	B
Of course then it follows he laughs in his sleeve	A2
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'Tis useless to speak but just put on your spectacles	B
Read about Chatham and Peale's See Notes splendid show	B2
There's Scudder and Dunlap they both have receptacles	B
Which I assure you are now all the go	B2
'Tis here thought polite too should giants delight you	D
And they should invite you to look at their shapes	B
To visit their dwelling where Indians are yelling	T
And handbills are telling of wonderful apes	B
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'Tis useless to speak of the din that so heavily	G
Fell on our senses as midnight drew near	G
Trumpets and bugles and conch shells so cleverly	G
Sounded the welkin with happy New Year	G
With jewsharps and timbrels and musical thimbles	B
Tin platters for cymbals and frying pans too	D
Dutch ovens and brasses and jingles and glasses	B
With reeds of all classes together they blew See Notes	B
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Then since it is useless to speak about anything	T
All have examined and laid on the shelf	C2
Perhaps it is proper to say now and then a thing	T
Touching the Mirror See Notes the day and myself	C2
Our work's not devoted as you may have noted	K
To articles quoted from books out of print	D2
Instead of the latter profusely we scatter	G
Original matter that's fresh from the mint	D2
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Patrons I greet you with feelings of gratitude	E2
Ladies to please you is ever my care	G
Nor wish I on earth for a sweeter beatitude	E2
If I but bask in the smiles of the fair	G
Such bliss to a poet is precious you know it	E2
And while you bestow it the heart feels content	E2
Your bounty has made us and still you will aid us	B
But some have not paid us we hope they'll repent	E2
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For holyday pleasure why these are the times for it	E2
Pardon me then for so trifling a lay	J
This stanza shall end it if I can find rhymes for it	E2
May you dear patrons be happy to day	J
Tho' life is so fleeting and pleasure so cheating	T
That we are oft meeting with accidents here	G
Should Fate seek to dish you oh then may the issue	D
Be what I now wish you A HAPPY NEW YEAR	G

George Pope Morris

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