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LORENZO ALTISONANT. Of many words, which end in ation,

With uniform accentuation,

Will be a useful aggregation.

For words with such a termination

Have a Latin derivation.

These lines will be a compilation,

A doggerel-rhyme enumeration

Of words of such origination;

And prove beyond equivocation,

Euphonious consarcination

Of Latin terms with our oration.

I mean, that this indigitation,

(Annoying for its perduration)

Of Latin-English conglobation,

Evinces to a demonstration

A natural conglutination,

In anglicized confabulation,

Of these two tongues in conversation,

Knowing no tergiversation,

Can'st thou show, without venation,

As long a string in this relation,

Of Anglo-Greek conglomeration?

For 'tis my humble postulation,

Since I've begun this odd narration,

If I should make a proclamation,

Or by some other excitation

Raise a sort of conflagration,

Or rather, mental inflammation

Among the learned of every nation,

To form a kind of conjugation,

Subject to dimidiation,

One half, by my appropriation,

Showing Grecian innovation,

The other half (a clear illation),

Proving by my instigation,

Latinical assimilation.