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DR. HAYES.
Undoubtedly great revelations waitThe search of our indomitable Hayes,
Who boldly knocketh at the Boreal gate,
Ne'er half unfolded to explorer's gaze.
Perhaps 'twill be his enviable fate
To find what makes the borealis blaze,
See the big hole about which Symmes did prate,
That oped its ponderous jaws up thereaways,
Discover and annex another state
That he may govern some of these odd days,
Know if the pole be tall and very straight
About which people long have felt a craze;—
An ice-king he, about whose regal pate
Shall twine the wreath of many Arctic bays.
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