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Since fire and watpr, harnessed here, 



Compose a YanKee team, 

 Perhaps our General Government 



Might go as well by steam ; 

 But as this case w^re better brought 



Before some higher court, 

 'Tis left for Cong -ess, when they meet. 



To argue and rt port. 



The Lime nor Olive will not grow 



Spontaneous here — what then ? 

 We've hearts of cik and nerves of steel 



In noble crops cf men ; 

 Our plant called Female Excellence 



No hot-bed culture needs 

 To yield sublunar Seraphim 



Of pure celestial breeds. 



When winter dissipates the heat, 



Beneath an iron sky. 

 Hot-houses with hot water fraught 



Caloric will supply ; 

 Thus gardeners by and by will make 



Fine climates of their own, 

 And raise, by manufactured heat, 



The plants of every zone : — 



With Lime and Sulphur doctor off 



Vile insects by the host, 

 Till Art, at length, of Nature's plagues 



Completely clears the coast. 

 Thus every blessing may be ours 



Which Providence has given 

 To every land and clime beneath 



The canopy of Heaven. 



