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Epigram On The Late Reform And The Whig Administration
by Thomas OldhamReform! reform! cries out the longing nation;
The people hail their own-elected House;
On tiptoe stands the general expectation:
What the grand doings of the Administration?
Lo! from the labouring mountain creeps a mouse!
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Metaphysical Sages
Have writ many pages,
To decide if the Mind
Be Spirit or Matter:
How strange! that in the pages
Of these metaphysical sages
We so seldom can find
Mind, Spirit, or Matter!