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In short, this luminary bright,
Like baby you might dandle,
For cleanliness and giving light,
And aspect of a snowy white,
There's nought- especially at night-
Like a Spermaceti Candle.

I may as well conclude, for if
I wrote another bandle,

I could not add a single whiff
Which would go further to uplif-
Ta Spermaceti Candle.

Concluding stanza, in which is sententiously summed up the rare qualities of a spermaceti candle.

Another conclusion, by way of ending.

SONG OF THE SHIRTLESS FOR THE
YEAR THIRTY-THREE

BY SIR MORGAN O'DOHERTY, BART.
DEDICATED TO ALL TRUE REFORMERS.*
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To the Tune of "Tolderol."

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*The Tories, who considered the Reform Bill as a revolutionary measure, indulged in all sorts of gloomy prophesies, on its becoming the law of the land, in 1832. The country, however, continued to exist, much as before, despite "the Bill" and the vaticinations.-M.

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