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XLII.
MODERN NEWSPAPER PORTRAITS.
Illustrious men, of high renown and worth!The tongue your greatness may not dare abuse;
Ye stand as beacon-lights in our small earth,
To praise whom enmity itself must choose!
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Magnates of wealth, preachers of note and fame,
Heroes who honors share for service great,
Savans who 'mongst the stars have writ their name;
Maidens of note, and dames of high degree,—
You all are shining on the printed page,
But vexed I feel, as ye I daily see,
At the vile scandal of this limning age,
That mars the lovely, makes good men a scoff,
In the “damnation of their taking off.”
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