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I was sitting with my microscope upon my parlor rug	A
With a very heavy quarto and a very lively bug	A
The true bug had been organized with only two antennae	B
But the humbug in the copperplate would have them twice as many	B
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And I thought like Dr Faustus of the emptiness of art	C
How we take a fragment for the whole and call the whole a part	C
When I heard a heavy footstep that was loud enough for two	D
And a man of forty entered exclaiming How d ye do	D
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He was not a ghost my visitor but solid flesh and bone	E
He wore a Palo Alto hat his weight was twenty stone	E
It s odd how hats expand their brims as riper years invade	F
As if when life had reached its noon it wanted them for shade	F
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I lost my focus dropped my book the bug who was a flea	B
At once exploded and commenced experiments on me	B
They have a certain heartiness that frequently appalls	G
Those mediaeval gentlemen in semilunar smalls	G
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My boy he said colloquial ways the vast broad hatted man	H
Come dine with us on Thursday next you must you know you can	H
We re going to have a roaring time with lots of fun and noise	I
Distinguished guests et cetera the judge and all the boys	I
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Not so I said my temporal bones are showing pretty clear	J
It s time to stop just look and see that hair above this ear	K
My golden days are more than spent and what is very strange	L
If these are real silver hairs I m getting lots of change	L
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Besides my prospects don t you know that people won t employ	M
A man that wrongs his manliness by laughing like a boy	M
And suspect the azure blossom that unfolds upon a shoot	N
As if wisdom s old potato could not flourish at its root	N
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It s a very fine reflection when you re etching out a smile	O
On a copperplate of faces that would stretch at least a mile	O
That what with sneers from enemies and cheapening shrugs of friends	P
It will cost you all the earnings that a month of labor lends	P
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It s a vastly pleasing prospect when you re screwing out a laugh	Q
That your very next year s income is diminished by a half	Q
And a little boy trips barefoot that Pegasus may go	R
And the baby s milk is watered that your Helicon may flow	R
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No the joke has been a good one but I m getting fond of quiet	S
And I don t like deviations from my customary diet	S
So I think I will not go with you to hear the toasts and speeches	T
But stick to old Montgomery Place and have some pig and peaches	T
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The fat man answered Shut your mouth and hear the genuine creed	U
The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed	U
The force that wheels the planets round delights in spinning tops	V
And that young earthquake t other day was great at shaking props	V
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I tell you what philosopher if all the longest heads	W
That ever knocked their sinciputs in stretching on their beds	W
Were round one great mahogany I d beat those fine old folks	X
With twenty dishes twenty fools and twenty clever jokes	X
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Why if Columbus should be there the company would beg	Y
He d show that little trick of his of balancing the egg	Y
Milton to Stilton would give in and Solomon to Salmon	Z
And Roger Bacon be a bore and Francis Bacon gammon	Z
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And as for all the patronage of all the clowns and boors	A2
That squint their little narrow eyes at any freak of yours	A2
Do leave them to your prosier friends such fellows ought to die	B2
When rhubarb is so very scarce and ipecac so high	B2
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And so I come like Lochinvar to tread a single measure	C2
To purchase with a loaf of bread a sugar plum of pleasure	C2
To enter for the cup of glass that s run for after dinner	C2
Which yields a single sparkling draught then breaks and cuts the winner	C2
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Ah that s the way delusion comes a glass of old Madeira	D2
A pair of visual diaphragms revolved by Jane or Sarah	D2
And down go vows and promises without the slightest question	Z
If eating words won t compromise the organs of digestion	Z
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And yet among my native shades beside my nursing mother	C2
Where every stranger seems a friend and every friend a brother	C2
I feel the old convivial glow unaided o er me stealing	E2
The warm champagny the old particular brandy punchy feeling	E2
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We re all alike Vesuvius flings the scoriae from his fountain	Z
But down they come in volleying rain back to the burning mountain	Z
We leave like those volcanic stones our precious Alma Mater	C2
But will keep dropping in again to see the dear old crater	C2

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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