It’s worth and merits then revere,

And since to-day begins our year,

Think not you e’er can buy too dear

The Paper.

The Spirit of the Public Journals, 1823.

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Velluti.

Heards’t thou not the peacock shriek?

Heards’t thou not the cricket squeak?

Heards’t thou not the door-hinge creak?