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50 LETTER TO

Dear friend, I've read thy lucubration,

More properly, thy nubilation,

Or some would say, thy obfuscation.

It is a striking illustration

Of dusty English bombilation.

Will’t not improve the cogitation

Of those who need the castigation,

Or those who read with titillation

Thy late essay at infuscation?

For if they need the flagellation,

What is a dry expostulation,

In form of a concatenation

Of arguments, without inflation?

Will not thy somber explication

Of Græco-Latin inquination,

Prove a certain condemnation;

And kill beyond resuscitation,

This pompous verbal exaltation?

Thy style is an indenization,

From lexicon incarceration,

Of words which have an impugnation

To Saxon-English lumination.

Altho' this, my sustentation

Of thy high-flown condemnation

Of bombastic ostentation,

May appear an aggravation,

(Or perhaps reduplication,

Or better yet, reiteration)

Of the point of crimination,

Yet without asseveration,

I think it plain, my collocation,