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List then! nor listen with a critic's froww,
Ising tho praises of our mountain town.
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Saree
And where the minstrel in that distant day
Had nobler theme t? inspire his gentle lay ?
What baron in his grim ancestral hall —
With *squire, retainer, feudal serf and all—
Looked from his unglazed windows to behold: _
Fair rivers shining o'er their sands of gold ?
Or raised his cabbage —food for Teutons bold—
As erst at All’son Ranch on fields of gold?
* ‘That old philos’pher, whose uplifted voice
With loud “Eureka” bade the world rejoice
—
Had our “ Eorexa” met bis wondering eyes,
Had hailed, with half incredulous surprise,
The longed-for “rock” at length before him hurled,.
The lever too with which to move the world.
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~* Tim? was, ere yet in this dozénerate day,’”
When all one asks of aught is “ Will it pay 2”
The minstrel was the Castle’s honored guost,
First with the fair, nor latest at the feast.
We sang, with wine andinspiration flushed,
His entertainer’s gallant deed3 —nor blus hed
T’ accept—with beauty’s smiles and wassailer’s toast—
A more substantial guerdon from his host.
Pray you, kind patrons, heed this gentle hint—
Trust me, if aptly read, “ there’s matter in’t.”
Sole relie of his art that we possess.
Is the poor “ Carrier's Annuil Addrus3 ?? —
Then yield your smiles and generosity
* To the last link that binds to far-o Chivalry.
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