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105 Oh! ye fair Ladies of Parnassus,

(Although ye are old-fashioned),

If ever in your flights ye pass us,

List to our prayer impassioned;

And find another victim-bud

To serve your superficial

Vot'ries—'twould do in wax, or wood,

Or cambric artificial.

Give it a name that nicely heads

An elegy or sonnet,

And the whole clan of X. Y. Z.'s

Will start a-rhyming on it.