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364 ’Tis said I look extremely like
 * A Highland chieftain with his tail on.

A clear and comprehensive view
 * Of every thing in art or nature,

In this, my opening speech, is due
 * To an enlightened Legislature.

I therefore have arranged with care,
 * In orderly classification,

The following subjects, which should share
 * Your most mature deliberation:

Physicians, senators, and makers
 * Of patent medicines and machines,

The train-bands and the Shaking Quakers,
 * Forts, colleges, and quarantines;

Debts, cadets, coal-mines, and canals,
 * Salt—the Comptroller’s next report,

Reform within our prison walls,
 * The customs and the Supreme Court;

Delinquents, juvenile and gray,
 * Schools, steamboats, justices of peace.

Republics of the present day,
 * And those of Italy and Greece;

Militia-officers, and they
 * Who serve in the police—

Madmen and laws, a great variety, The horticultural society,