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ANACREONTICS.

And some about Heidseck will prate for a week (it
Might hide very long before I would seek it)
And your grave Bostonian so stately of pace,
With second hand English writ in his face,
Of whom you may say without any libel, he
Claims to be master of omne scibile
And in every thing to be men's guider
Will talk to you half an hour about Schreider;
At one time Bacchanals all confest
That Brigham's Sillery was the best,
It used to gladden me when I spied
His grape leaf gilt on a bottle's side
But pallida mors who lets none escape
Without leave stalked away with our grape;
And a very good fellow well known to me
Hangs out a wine that they call N. B.
If any one's cross or troubled with spleen, he

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