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Absurdities

in prose and verse. Written and Illustrated By A. Crowquill [i.e. C. R. Forrester]

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TO THOMAS HOOD, ESQ.

AUTHOR OF WHIMS AND ODDITIES.

Wits may now lay aside their pens,
Their sallies bring no good;
'Till thou art dead they cannot hope
To—Urn a lively Hood!