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 Will it make Dick Hunt less jolly, render Bierstadt's speech more slow, Will our Jack look melancholy 'cause his cousin cannot show?' Will Leutze say "poor fellow!" how I wish we had him here?" Or the eye of Beard grow mellow with a sympathetic tear?

Eugene Benson's up the country, to enjoy what he calls Spring, Though I think it great effront'ry here to speak of such a thing, We have got no Spring (poor devils) in this wretched Western clime, When the Summer's hottest revels follow close on Winter's rime;