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'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning, / All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect; / And in a jeremaid of objurgatory warning / He lifted up his "jodel" to the following effect:
O ye sanguinary statesmen, intermit your verbal tussles / O ye editors and orators, consent to hear my lay! / And a little while the digital and maxillary muscles / And attend to what a Venerable Person has to say.