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But then they have their claret and madeiraTo irrigate the dryness of decline;

And Country Meetings and the Parliament ,And debt, and what not, for their solace sent.

VI.

And is there not Religion, and Reform,

Peace, War, the taxes, and what's calledthe « Nation p»

The struggle to be Pilots in a storm ?

The landed and the monied speculation ?The joys of mutual hate to keep them warm ,Instead of love, that mere hallucination PNow hatred is by far the longest pleasure;

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

VII.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist, professed,Right honestly, «he liked an honest hater” — ( 1 )