Awakes Matilda’s charms:

I calmly spread the old girl out

And snuggle in her arms—

Untouched by sighs or sentiment,

Unscathed by love’s alarms.

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SOAKER SMITH.

He died of thirst.

They tell no tale lugubrious

Or horror finely spun,

Of martyr’s groans and human bones