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In which, without any extraneous aid 

 A man is entirely and wholly self-made ! 



But this is'nt all — they're running away 

 With the darkness of night and sunshine of day, 

 Entirely regardless of nature's didactics, 

 To suit their own unscrupulous tactics, 

 So that you've only to mention a thank'ee 

 To a genuine blooded, high-spirited Yankee, 

 And tell him you want — for powerful reasons — 

 A very great change in the length of the seasons, 

 And he'll hang in your hall a barometer glass 

 Which brings the great change instanter to pass, 

 That is eight dollars from one to the other, 

 Without an iota of change in the weather ! 



Mysterious Yankees 1 Thy records unfold 

 Of wondrous achievements accomplished of old, 

 When men 'gainst the banner of tyranny led, 

 Undauntedly conquered or cheerfully bled; 

 But now, though armies should come like a flood, 

 You'd easily wither their hopes in the bud ; 

 For somehow or other you'd make a machine, 

 The like of which had never been seen, 

 And grind them all, men, horses and drums, 

 To one promiscuous mountain of crumbs ! 



There's a thought came into my noddle this morning 

 As I lay on my bed a tossing and turning; 

 Whether every man who ventures to shoulder 

 His own peculiar theological boulder 

 Is a sinner far greater than those of his fellows 

 Who never are pumping at heretic bellows ? 

 If really it is so — and Robertson's lecture 

 Declares it to be the most certain conjecture — 

 What a terrible deal the Yankees must lack, 

 Each one with his own sectarian pack. 



And first we may mention the stern orthodox, 



Cut out of old Plymouth's redoubtable rocks, 



And proven to be by clear demonstration 



The anchor of hope to our rattle-brain nation, 



But whose ranks have at times been thrown in disorder 



Through the over- worked brain of the Boston Recorder. 



And then there's a thousand of isms and schools, 



Some founded by wise men — some started by fools ; 



Some mingling the network of cursed theologies — 



Some cheating their victims with lies and astrologies ; 



