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LETTER TO I say it, without hesitation,

That such a course of rare probation,

Would prove a sure corroboration,

Of all my prior allegation.

However, ratiocination

Must cease its tedious prolation,

For surely, this prolification

Of Latinized elucidation

Will admit of prorogation

Of indefinite duration.

And lest I raise the indignation

Of all the reading congregation,

I now must seek propitiation

By a ready promulgation,

To readers all in every station,

That soon there'll be exoneration.

For this versific fermentation,

Without the Latin mediation,

Would find a sudden consummation –

But there is here consociation,

By which a scheme of figuration,

Plays back and forth like oscillation,

Of pawns that bear recuperation

And keeps a constant fluctuation,

Far beyond all computation.

But hold! this is a recurvation

To my verbose salivation,

Which is, thou know'st, an inundation

From the parts of manducation.

Friend, this itching inclination

To perpetual annexation,

Is like a stone, by gravitation,

Falling from an elevation,

And gaining such acceleration,

As needs a great preponderation

Of something as an obviation,