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“ If your courage will venture a combat with me, 
I will quickly convey you, I ’m sure, o’er the sea, 
* Materials * to find; 
In Etna’s vast crater, where lava is hot, 
You can with great ease make a few musket-shot; 
With those, and those only, my life will be bought,— 
So fate has ordained. 
“ Of mutton I’m fond ; — do you, arrogant, ask ? 
You know there was Calder, Pearce, Kittredge, and Trask, 
Once had a good flock; 
From their farm on the Point I now and then sweep 
A dozen or two of the best of their sheep; 
But ah, the Merinoes are dead ! — they now keep 
Your country’s poor stock ! 
a Of my'home you inquire; — d ’ye wish to make calls ? 
The Maelstrom’s my castle, the ocean my walls ; 
Its strength would you try ? 
Within a short mile, should you sail o’er my seas, 
I ’ll send out a pleasant, a light, friendly breeze ; 
You ne’er can withstand my attraction to please, 
Nor my power defy. 
u The Gloucester people must always find out, 
When a stranger arrives, what he is about; 
So I must explain. 
I heard your good President utter a wish 
To visit Cape Ann, to eat chowder and fish, 
To honor the chief and to taste of his dish ; — 
I stopped with my train. 
u Within that good harbour I tarried awhile 
To bask in the sunbeams of beauty’s sweet smile, 
To please my two aids. 
I loitered a moment to gaze on the fair; 
With pleasure I own they with Eve can compare ; 
But such are their virtues, I hardly should dare 
To tempt those sweet maids. 
