A niche of your own in the new Martyrologies

You’d earn if you’d only go halves in our woes.

We’v counted some forty! but how many more there are,

We’re even now wholly unable to say;

We fear that at least the same number in store there are,

You’ll say we have found quite enough for one day.

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“So now for our Catalogue: first comes Anthology—

A bouquet of flowers, a budget of rhymes;

That’s pleasant—not so the next, called Anthropology,