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The Naughty Man;
OR,
SIR THOMAS BROWN.
Love, Courtship and Marriage in High Life.
A POETICAL SATIRE,
BY
OCTAVIUS.
NEWARK, N. J.:
F. C. BLISS & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1878.
Copyright, 1878, by F. C. Bliss & Co.
LESSONS we learn from what we daily see
Of good or evil, if philosophy,
Based on those great First Truths, will hold the mind
Within its limits—happiness to find.
Those great First Truths will teach the human soul
That the equator lies not at the pole,
[Pg 6]That man before his own nose cannot walk,
That man without his palate cannot talk;
That gravitation tends not to the sky,
But to Earth’s center, should he try to fly.
II.
Much of delusion mixed with truth we find,
Strange whims, and twinings in the human mind:
[Pg 7]Delusions, fictions, foibles, glittering lies,
Frescoed with truth, seem real as the skies.
At the same table, sitting side by side,
Oft we do see Humility and Pride,
Wit, Genius, Learning, the great man of law,
In social converse with the man of straw.
Extremes oft meet around the festive board,
An honest beggar and a thieving lord;
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