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And cannot tune those discords of narration,

Which may be names at Moscow, into rhyme;

Yet there were several worth commemoration,

As e’er was virgin of a nuptial chime;

Soft words, too, fitted for the peroration

Of Londonderry drawling against time,

Ending in “ischskin,” “ousckin,” “iffskchy,” “ouski,”

Of whom we can insert but Rousamouski,