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Excerpt from The Mock Auction: Ossawatomie Sold, a Mock Heroic Poem
That, that was not the time for virtue, In which had culminated few. He said, it was in history, P'r'aps written by mystery, Or Medium, or Witch, may be, Who before, betwixt, behind can see; One born with caul over the eyes, Can see out of sight - if he tries. Trumpeter dwelt on these what-note, Like painter, gazing in gallipots, Sees visions gloriously bright In raw-umber and silver-white; And, from the mess, a picture seems In majesty to rise, - it beams, It was a thing of mystic life; It surprised, not pleased, the palette-knife, Would make the lofty easel sick, And freely vomited the maulstick; Yet, it did pretty well subserve His ideal, of a chef d' oeuvre. Now, from these aforementioned flaws, He goes to work to frame wise saws. To suit the really rotten times, And get himself and friends some dimes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
