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'Tis not in iron, braſs, tin, ſilver, or in gold.

Wild Africa this wonder wants, and ſo doth Aſia; But yet, as travellers affirm, 'tis in America.

Germany enjoys it,: yet does not France or Spain; In Hungary and Polland, to ſeek for it is vain.

In Amſterdam 'tis common, yet Holland wants it ſtill: 'Tis in every mountain, yet not in any hill.

It never was in Italy, in Rome it ſtill appears; It comes in ev'ry minute, yet not in twenty years.

All England cannot ſhew it, nor Scotland; but men ſay, In Weſtminſter and Cambridge, you ſee it every day:

And tho' you do not think on't,                         'tis never out of mind, And always in its proper place indeed you may it find.

The Letter M.