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IN QUANTITY.
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Me rather all that bowery loneliness,The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring, And bloom profuse and cedar arches  Charm, as a wanderer out in ocean,Where some refulgent sunset of IndiaStreams o’er a rich ambrosial ocean isle, And crimson-hued the stately palmwoods  Whisper in odorous heights of even.
Hendecasyllabics.
O you chorus of indolent reviewers,Irresponsible, indolent reviewers,Look, I come to the test, a tiny poemAll composed in a metre of Catullus,All in quantity, careful of my motion,Like the skater on ice that hardly bears him,Lest I fall unawares before the people,Waking laughter in indolent reviewers.Should I flounder awhile without a tumbleThro’ this metrification of Catullus,They should speak to me not without a welcome,
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