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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 
SOLILOQUY OF A W A T E R - W A G T A I L, 
(on the walls op YORK CASTLE.) 
On the walls that guard my prison, 
Swelling with fantastic pride, 
Brisk and merry as the season, 
I a feathered coxcomb spied : 
When the little hopping elf 
Gaily thus amused himself : — 
" Hear your sovereign's proclamation. 
All good subjects, young and old ! 
I'm the lord of all creation — 
I, — a water wag-tail bold ! 
All around and all you see. 
All the world was made for me! 
