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 THE PRESENTATION.

��PUT on your best, ray countrymen, and turn

Your steeds toward the palace. You can have

No just objection to a call, I trust,

Upon the king and queen. For though you re all

Such staunch republicans, t is plain to see

You ve quite a curiosity to know

How those who wear a crown deport themselves.

Well, there s no harm in that.

But what a show

Our sober, unambitious gentry make In regimentals, with their laced chapeaus, En militaire ! I m sure the friends at home Would never know them, and their babes would be As much alarmed as Hector s when he shrank Lack from the hero s helm and nodding plumes, Into his nurse s arms. I m quite well versed In that most classic scene, which oft was wrought In bright embroidery,&quot; where I went to school. And I have seen it framed, and glazed, and hung On parlor walls, when I was fain to think, Asking the pardon of the fair who spent.

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