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 AIR lady with the bandaged eye!
 * I’ll pardon all thy scurvy tricks,

So thou wilt cut me, and deny
 * Alike thy kisses and thy kicks:

I’m quite contented as I am,
 * Have cash to keep my duns at bay,

Can choose between beefsteaks and ham,
 * And drink Madeira every day.

My station is the middle rank,
 * My fortune—just a competence—

Ten thousand in the Franklin Bank,
 * And twenty in the six per cents.;

No amorous chains my heart enthrall,
 * I neither borrow, lend, nor sell;

Fearless I roam the City Hall,
 * And “bite my thumb” at Sheriff Bell.48

The horse that twice a week I ride,
 * At Mother Dawson’s49 eats his fill;

My books at Goodrich’s50 abide,
 * My country-seat is Weehawk hill;