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A Beauty at the season’s close grown hectic,

A Genius who has drunk himself to death,

A Rake turned methodistic, or Eclectic⁠—

(For that’s the name they like to pray beneath)⁠—

But most, an Alderman struck apoplectic,

Are things that really take away the breath⁠—

And show that late hours, wine, and love are able

To do not much less damage than the table.