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Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon. Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego Your future claims to each fantastic toe! Waltz--Waltz alone--both legs and arms demands, Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands.

Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.

Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine , Long be thine import from all duty free, And hock itself be less esteem'd than thee.

No Sane man will dance.

The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need Of aid from them--she was the Universe.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter.

The nympholepsy of some fond despair.

For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.

That each pull'd different ways with many an oath, "Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both.

And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.