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122 And the old man, looking sadly Across the garden-lawn, Where here and there a dew-drop Yet glittered in the dawn, Said "Go to the Adelphi, And see the 'Colleen Bawn.'

"The word is due to Boucicault— The theory is his, Where Life becomes a spasm, And History a whiz: If that is not Sensation, I don't know what it is.

"Now try your hand, ere Fancy Has lost its present glow—" "And then," his grandson added, "We'll publish it, you know: Green cloth—gold-lettered at the back— In duodecimo!"