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The choice spirits feast

a comic ode. By George Alexander Stevens

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Here was a Hare kill'd, and there a Fox fell;
Here a Leap took wou'd startle a Cæsar;
There they unharbour'd, and there rung his Knell,
And here it was hit off, hark forward to Teizer.
Then they their Bumpers above-head advancing,
All fell to singing and then fell to dancing.

II

Wonder and Plunder, shrill Thunder and Sue,
Blueman and Trueman, with Ringwood and Rowler;
Sweetlips the Babbler, and Tulip so true,
With Darling and Starling, and Tattler and Trowler.
These were the Hounds he hoop'd and he hollow'd
While all the rest reeling with Tolderoll follow'd.