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 What lovers call "unutterable things"— That sort of dignity was in his mien Which awes the gazer into ice, and brings To recollection some great man we've seen, The Governor, perchance, whose eye and frown, 'Twas shrewdly guessed, would knock Judge Skinner down.

And for "Resources," both of purse and head, He was a subject worthy Bristed's pen; Believed devoutly all his flatterers said, And deemed himself a Crœsus among men; Spread to the liberal air his silken sails, And lavished guineas like a Prince of Wales.

He mingled now with those within whose veins The blood ran pure—the magnates of the land— Hailed them as his companions and his friends, And lent them money and his note of hand. In every institution, whose proud aim Is public good alone, he soon became

A man of consequence and notoriety; His name, with the addition of esquire,