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Rh Be kind enough to mention one
 * 'Exempli gratiâ.

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
 * Have lost its present glow—"

"And then," his grandson added,
 * "We'll publish it, you know:

Green cloth—gold-lettered at the back—
 * In duodecimo!"