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 EAR Simpson, since the day is near
 * Destined to close your late campaign,

’Tis well to greet the coming year, And learn how best you may appear
 * Before the public eye again.

One thing, at least, whate’er you do, For Heaven’s sake give us something new! For though your actors have not lost
 * One lightning-flash of Thespian fire,

Yet beauties that delight us most,
 * The wearied eye, in time, will tire.

’Tis thus the sated gaze of taste
 * Holland’s58 drop-curtain heedless passes;

And thus the schoolboy loathes at last
 * His sugar-candy and molasses.

Now, if you will but take advice,
 * Bank-notes shall fall like summer rain,

And next year you and Mr. Price
 * May cut your cider for champagne.

Just hand your present corps down-stairs,
 * Disband them all, and then create