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Let observation with extensive view	B
Survey mankind from China to Peru	B
And whence permit me in parenthesis	C
To ask on such historic night as this	C
Could one more fitly seasonably quote	D
Than from some page that Samuel Johnson wrote	D
Our Godsire in the honoured name of whom	E
This feast we spread this temple we illume	E
These long church wardens we but to resume	E
Let observation with extensive view	B
Survey mankind from China to Peru	B
And judgment following observation try	F
Those countless multitudes to classify	F
Camper and Blumenbach and Cuvier too	B
Surveyed mankind from China to Peru	B
And many a savant of more modern fame	E
With the same end in view has done the same	E
Seeking some formula that should embrace	G
The thousandfold divisions of the race	G
And yet the theme grows more and more occult	H
For each presents a different result	H
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Let us essay the task Imprimis quit	I
Their uncouth jargon that but darkens wit	I
What least pretence of light can mortal see	J
In Dioscurian Mongolidae	I
What help in Xanthochroic can be found	I
Is Hyperborean Samoeid aught but sound	I
Dolichocephalic 's a wild guffaw	K
Orthognathous and Prognathous mere jaw	K
Not ours to come to grief upon the rocks	L
Of groups and families and unplaced stocks	L
Branches varieties and sub varieties	M
That only swell their total of dubieties	M
But as of old the Gentile and the Jew	B
Made up the whole world in the Hebrew view	B
So we to night at least will hold it true	B
That all mankind divides itself in two	B
Two classes only form the race of man	N
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JOHN SO NI AN and NON JOHN SO NI AN	N
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And we the Hebrews of this later day	I
The Chosen People one might fitlier say	I
We too have wandered in the wilderness	M
For many a year without a fixed address	M
I do not say the Wilderness of Sin	O
The cases are sufficiently akin	O
Without that detail being counted in	O
We too from shifting stage to shifting stage	P
Have plodded through our thirsty pilgrimage	Q
A tabernacular existence led	I
As our sonorous godsire would have said	I
From well to well at least from pub to pub	R
We've humped the sacred Lares of the Club	R
Still keeping like the Jew a hopeful eye	F
Upon the Promised Land of by and by	F
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And now when twenty homeless years have passed	I
Behold us in that Promised Land at last	I
Vagrants no more but making jubilee	J
Under our own vine and our own figtree	B
But here the parallel fails Unlike the Jew	B
We have not played the privative cuckoo	B
We've turned no Gentile fledgling from its nest	I
No Non Johnsonian fowl have dispossessed	I
We have ourselves the twigs and mosses laid	I
In point of fact our home is pure home made	I
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But twigs and mosses What a sorry trope	S
For this grand culmination of our hope	S
This lordly pleasure house that we have built	I
This brave o'erhanging wonderment of gilt	I
This spacious hall where festival is graced	I
With all the garniture of art and taste	I
Rich with pictorial treasures that display	I
Whatever portraiture can well portray	I
From grisly Johnson in his suit of snuff	T
To simpering Chloe in her native buff	T
Those cloisters in whose tesselated aisles	M
Sits Nicotina wreathed in vaporous smiles	M
This billiard chamber where our privileged ears	M
May hear all night the music of the spheres	M
This salle de lecture this ideal bar	B
Where shipwreck lurks not where no sirens are	B
This whole substantial fabric of no dream	E
But solid brick and perdurable beam	E
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But what if sloughing off the things that were	B
We shed the old Johnsonian character	B
If this migration to a home delectable	U
Should land us in the groove of the Respectable	U
Oh never may we shame our godsire thus	M
Still let his golden words appeal to us	M
I'm with you boys when in the midnight dark	V
His roystering comrades roused him for a lark	V
I'm with you boys he answered with delight	I
And Heaven alone knows what they did that night	I
Still may these royal words define the true	B
Johnsonian temperament and point of view	B
Still walk we in the old Johnsonian road	I
I'm with you boys our motto and our code	I
Still be our virtues in this order reckoned	I
Fellowship first Decorum a bad second	I
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Nor fear that moral poison lurks herein	O
Desipere in loco isn't Sin	O
Take him for type who Wisdom's hierarch	W
Retained the relish of the midnight lark	V
Take this for counsel keep it to the letter	B
Be good as Johnson but oh don't be better	B
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So walking in the light his spirit sheds	M
This gilded splendour will not turn our heads	M
So to the Gentile scorner who would say	I
That luxury is the herald of decay	I
Our answer framed in fashion old and famous	M
Shall be Domum non animum mutamus	M

James Brunton Stephens

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