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ANACREONTICS.

Which makes the Deutscher, like a rock, stand through the thickest fight?
Or call we it a precious stone, a very gem of drink,
A jewel bright in dusky case when glasses gaily clink?

Come, work it out by algebra, you all-accomplished man.
Or rhyme it out in goodly verse, if rhyme it out you can.
Or play it in a symphony of solemn swelling sound,
Or in the dozen tongues you speak the mystery expound,
We will not quarrel with the name, whatever first it meant,

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