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70 With a saturate solution Of a certain salt of Soda— Chemists call it Hyposulphite. (Very difficult the name is For a metre like the present, But periphrasis has done it.) All the family in order Sat before him for their pictures. Each in turn, as he was taken, Volunteered his own suggestions, His invaluable suggestions. First the Governor, the Father: He suggested velvet curtains Looped about a massy pillar; And the corner of a table, Of a rosewood dining-table. He would hold a scroll of something, Hold it firmly in his left-hand; He would keep his right-hand buried