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COMMERCE.
Go, ask them now to buy the last Gazette,Or Daily Journal, while the council's met;And, if in peace you wend your devious way,You'll swim unharmed the gulf of Florida!
 Trade hath its bubbles! Eastward where the sunThrows off his night-cap when his nap is done,Lo, how they rise! what shouts on every handProclaim the glories of our timber land!O, who will credit such fantastic talesWhile banks suspend, and India-rubber fails;While fancy-stocks hang trembling in the air,And unwhipped rogues the guise of virtue wear?
 Hark, to the cry! an embryo city dawnsOn some dyspeptic in his morning yawns;Up spring tall forests in his magic dream,And high-crowned turrets in the distance gleam;Short is his meal; straightway a plan is drawn;Here lies a railroad, there a verdant lawn;
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