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POEMS. 



Divide the simple meal, and drain the cask : 

 The swinging cradle lulls the whimpering babe, 

 Meantime ; while growling round, if at the tread 

 Of hasty passenger alarm'd, as of their store 

 Protective, stalks the cur with bristling back, 

 To guard the scanty scrip and russet frock. 



