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FITCH:'All vices you've exhausted, friend;So all the papers say.'PICKERING:'Ah, what vile calumnies are penned!-'Tis just the other way.'

Wild wanton Luxury lays waste the landWith difficulty tilled by Thrift's hard hand!Then dies the State!-and, in its carcass found,The millionaires..

Like a worn mother he attempts in vainTo still the unruly Crier of his brain:The more he rocks the cradle of his chinThe more uproarious grows the..

Come, gentlemen-your gold.Thanks: welcome to the show.To hear a story toldIn words you do not know.Now, great Salvini, riseAnd thunder through your..

Once I seen a human ruinIn a elevator-well.And his members was bestrewin'All the place where he had fell.And I says, apostrophisin'That uncommon..

The rimer quenches his unheeded fires,The sound surceases and the sense expires.Then the domestic dog, to east and west,Expounds the passions burning..

A spitcat sate on a garden gateAnd a snapdog fared beneath;Careless and free was his mien, and heHeld a fiddle-string in his teeth.She marked his..

Beneath my window twilight madeFamiliar mysteries of shade.Faint voices from the darkening downWere calling vaguely to the town.Intent upon a low..

Professor dear, I think it queerThat all these good religions('Twixt you and me, some two or threeAre schemes for plucking pigeons)I mean 'tis..

Hassan Bedreddin, clad in rags, ill-shod,Sought the great temple of the living God.The worshippers arose and drove him forth,And one in power beat..

When Dr. Charles O'Donnell diedThey sank a box with him inside.The plate with his initials threeWas simply graven-'C.O.D.'That night two demons of..

Lord of the tempest, pray refrainFrom leveling this church again.Now in its doom, as so you've willed it,We acquiesce. But _you'll_ rebuild it.

When Admonition's hand essaysOur greed to curse,Its lifted finger oft displaysOur missing purse.

Says Gerald Massey: 'When I write, a bandOf souls of the departed guides my hand.'How strange that poems cumbering our shelves,Penned by immortal..

WITH saintly grace and reverent tread    She walked among the graves with me;    Her every footfall seemed to beA benediction on the dead.The..

Fear not in any tongue to callUpon the Lord-He's skilled in all.But if He answereth my pleaHe speaketh one unknown to me.

I'd long been dead, but I returned to earth.Some small affairs posterity was makingA mess of, and I came to see that worthReceived its dues. I'd..

Twas a sick young man with a face ungayAnd an eye that was all alone;And he shook his head in a hopeless wayAs he sat on a roadside stone.'O, ailing..

That land full surely hastens to its endWhere public sycophants in homage bendThe populace to flatter, and repeatThe doubled echoes of its loud..

'I beg you to note,' said a Man to a Goose,As he plucked from her bosom the plumage all loose,'That pillows and cushions of feathers and bedsAs warm..

Successive bards pursue Ambition's fireThat shines, Oblivion, above thy mire.The latest mounts his predecessor's trunk,And sinks his brother ere..

The pig is taught by sermons and epistlesTo think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.Judibras.

Republicans think Jonas BimmA Democrat gone mad,And Democrats consider himRepublican and bad.The Tough reviles him as a DudeAnd gives it him right..

Still as he climbed into the public viewHis charms of person more apparent grew,Till the pleased world that watched his airy graceSaw nothing of him..

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.MOUNTWAVE _a Politician_HARDHAND _a Workingman_TOK BAK _a Chinaman_SATAN _a Friend to Mountwave_CHORUS OF FOREIGN..