 | Uncollected Poems of James Russell Lowell |  |
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CAMPAIGN EPIGRAMS
A Coincidence
Banks made a speech and sate; the band full soon,As if by instinct, struck up Bonnie Doon;
O strong enchantment of those Scottish lays!
That make us still associate Banks and brays.
The Widow's Mite
When currency's debased, all coins will pass.Ask you for proof? The Widow's might is brass.
Moieties
A Widow? Yes, and not of one but twain,The worser half of Sanborn and of Jayne;
She helped their dubious profits, and, they gone,
At the old stand the business carries on.
The Astronomer Misplaced
Boutwell could find a big hole in the sky,Blind to the small ones in the Treasury.
Tell him of leaks, he doesn't care a pin;
Can't they be stopped by sticking sponges in?
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