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Ah, welcome, welcome! Sit you down, old friend;Your pipe I'll serve, your bottle I'll attend.'Tis many a year since you and I have knownSociety more..

O Liberty, God-giftedYoung and immortal maidIn your high hand uplifted;The torch declares your trade.Its crimson menace, flamingUpon the sea and..

Because from Folly's lips you gotSome babbled mandate to subdueThe realm of Common Sense, and youMade promise and considered notBecause you strike a..

Sir, you're a veteran, revealedIn history and fableAs warrior since you took the field,Defeating Abel.As Commissary later (orIf not, in every..

When at your window radiant you've stoodI've sometimes thought-forgive me if I've erredThat some slight thought of me perhaps has stirredYour heart..

Dear, if I never saw your face again;If all the music of your voice were muteAs that of a forlorn and broken lute;If only in my dreams I might..

Attend, mine enemies of all degrees,From sandlot orators and sandlot fleasTo fallen gentlemen and rising loutsWho babble slander at your drinking..

Saponacea, wert thou not so fairI'd curse thee for thy multitude of sinsFor sending home my clothes all full of pinsA shirt occasionally that's a..

Not as two errant spheres together grindWith monstrous ruin in the vast of space,Destruction born of that malign embrace,Their hapless peoples all to..

O, Sinner A, to me unknownBe such a conscience as your own!To ease it you to Sinner BConfess the sins of Sinner C.

Back further thanI know, in SanFrancisco dwelt a wealthy man.So rich was heThat none could beWise, good and great in like degree.'Tis true he..

What! Salomon! such words from you,Who call yourself a soldier? Well,The Southern brother where he fellSlept all your base oration through.Alike to..

They say, my lord, that you're a Warwick. Well,The title's an absurd one, I believe:You make no kings, you have no kings to sell,Though really 'twere..

So, Hall McAllister, you'll not be warnedMy protest slighted, admonition scorned!To save your scoundrel client from a cellAs loth to swallow him as..

What! you a Senator-you, Mike de Young?Still reeking of the gutter whence you sprung?Sir, if all Senators were such as you,Their hands so crimson and..

Frank Pixley, you, who kiss the handThat strove to cut the country's throat,Cannot forgive the hands that smoteApplauding in a distant..

Yes, the Summer girl is flirting on the beach,With a him.And the damboy is a-climbing for the peach,On the limb;Yes, the bullfrog is a-croakingAnd..

Well, Towser (I'm thinking your name must be Towser),You're a decentish puppy as puppy dogs go,For you never, I'm sure, could have dined upon..

Newman, in you two parasites combine:As tapeworm and as graveworm too you shine.When on the virtues of the quick you've dwelt,The pride of residence..

Thy gift, if that it be of God,Thou hast no warrant to appraise,Nor say: 'Here part, O Muse, our ways,The road too stony to be trod.'Not thine to..

Affronting fool, subdue your transient light;When Wisdom's dull dares Folly to be bright:If Genius stumble in the path to fame,'Tis decency in dunces..

Delay responsible? Why, then; my friend,Impeach Delay and you will make an end.Thrust vile Delay in jail and let it rotFor doing all the things that..

Good Parson Dickson preached, I'm told,A sermon-ah, 'twas very oldAnd very, very, bald!'Twas all about-I know not whatIt was about, nor what 'twas..

Old Nick from his place of last resortCame up and looked the world over.He saw how the grass of the good was shortAnd the wicked lived in clover.And..

Sharon, ambitious of immortal shame,Fame's dead-wall daubed with his illustrious nameServed in the Senate, for our sins, his time,Each word a folly..