Ah yes, let us have it, this needful Ozone,
In portable parcels! Ah me!
No longer need Paterfamilias groan
At the cost of that month by the Sea!

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SHAKSPEARIAN MOTTO FOR THE NEW UNIONISM.--(_Dedicated to the
Artisan left out in the cold_.)--"In the ambush of my name, strike
home!"--_Measure for Measure_.

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TO MY UMBRELLA.

'Twere hard indeed to try to get
A theme without some poem on it--
A vilanelle, a triolet,
An ode, an epic, or a sonnet.
CASTARA'S charms were sung of old,
Both SWIFT and SIDNEY, wrote to STELLA,
But mine it is to first unfold
The praise of my beloved Umbrella.

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You are not difficult to please,
Although no doubt a trifle "knobby;"
Whilst I'm reclining at mine ease,
I leave you standing in the lobby.