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No Brigadier throughout the Year So civic as the Jay — A Neighbor and a Warrior too With shrill felicity Pursuing Winds that censure us A February Day, The Brother of the Universe Was never blown away — The Snow…

No Autumn’s intercepting Chill Appalls this Tropic Breast — But African Exuberance And Asiatic rest.

Nature can do no more She has fulfilled her Dyes Whatever Flower fail to come Of other Summer days Her crescent reimburse If other Summers be Nature’s imposing negative Nulls opportunity —

Nature assigns the Sun — That — is Astronomy — Nature cannot enact a Friend — That — is Astrology.

Nature affects to be sedate Upon occasion, grand But let our observation shut Her practices extend To Necromancy and the Trades Remote to understand Behold our spacious Citizen Unto a Juggler turned —

Myself can read the Telegrams A Letter chief to me The Stock’s advance and Retrograde And what the Markets say The Weather — how the Rains In Counties have begun. ‘Tis News as null as nothing, But sweeter so —…

My Wars are laid away in Books — I have one Battle more — A Foe whom I have never seen But oft has scanned me o’er — And hesitated me between And others at my side, But chose the…

My Triumph lasted till the Drums Had left the Dead alone And then I dropped my Victory And chastened stole along To where the finished Faces Conclusion turned on me And then I hated Glory And wished myself were They.…

My Season’s furthest Flower — I tenderer commend Because I found Her Kinsmanless, A Grace without a Friend.

My Maker — let me be Enamored most of thee — But nearer this I more should miss —