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NYJ-P.779.017
6 Sep 1779:22 (1841)
A Rebus.
Take the name of a man, who upon his own pate,
Hath drawn down the curses of every state;
Especially those of Connecticut, where
His Vesuvian terrors old women did scare;
And the name of an ominous bird of the night,
Whose dolorous notes does the traveller fright;
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And also the name of a tune often played,
By New-England fifers upon the parade;
When Britons to Lexington dar'd to advance,
This tune (twenty miles) they did back again dance.
. . . [4 more lines, signed] S.D. Kingston August 23, 1779.
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