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Rh Like new-made glass, set by to cool, Before it bears the workman's tool. A blotted proof-sheet, wet from Bowling. —"How can a man his anger hold in?" Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes;— A mass of heterogeneous matter, A chaos dark, nor land nor water ; New books, like new-born infants, stand, 'Waiting the printer's clothing hand;— Others, a motley ragged brood, Their limbs imfashioned all, and rude, Like Cadmus' half-formed men appear; One rears a helm, one lifts a spear, And feet were lopped and fingers torn Before their fellow limbs were born; A leg began to kick and sprawl Before the head was seen at all, Which quiet as a mushroom lay Till crumbling hillocks gave it way;