“And they put in your hand a pamphlet small,
Adapted to people of different stations,
Which cites the law, and exhorts them all
To dismiss in peace their old relations.
‘Why let them linger in a vale,’
It states, ‘where often colds they catch?
Send them to us, and we’ll end the tale
With politeness, humanity, and dispatch.’
“ ‘N.B.—For those who would die by the trigger
We’ve a merciful man who’s a practised shot,