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ANACREONTICS.

Champagne and hock, and oranges, Bohemian crystal crowning,
Are very explicit, I guess, and not at all like Browning.

See, see, around that brimming bowl's concomitant utensils
How gather all the goodly souls immortal in their pencils!
E. L. is holding forth to Hays, and serious as a quaker, he
Is throwing light, sir, on the days of ornamental drapery.
There's Eastman J. and Haseltine, a looking at a Venus,[1]

  1. Now I think on't, 'twas a Diana. But as she was in the usual costume of a Venus, it comes to the same thing, so I let the couplet stand.

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