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' ye the arrow hurtle in the sky? Heard ye the dragon-monster's deathful cry?'— Excuse this sudden burst of the Heroic; The present state of things would vex a Stoic! And just as Sairey Gamp, for pains within, Administered a modicum of gin, So does my mind, when vexed and ill at ease, Console itself with soothing similes. The 'dragon-monster' (pestilential schism!) I need not tell you is Conservatism; The 'hurtling arrow' (till we find a better) Is represented by the present Letter.