The select poems of DrThomas Dunn English (exclusive of the "Battle lyrics") . THE GREAT RHODE ISLAND SEAM: A NARRATIVE, IN Harmanus Van Brunck was an old Knickerbocker, Who long sailed a ship in the Rotterdam trade;Then retired from the sea, with some shot in the locker, To build him a fig-tree, and sit in its on Murray Hill he erected a a sort of indefinite sky-ward expansion;A brown-stone front of the Folderol order, With curlicues spread over every casement;The ceilings dove-colored, with blue and gold border; Gas introduced from the attic to basement;Encaust

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The select poems of DrThomas Dunn English (exclusive of the "Battle lyrics") . THE GREAT RHODE ISLAND SEAM: A NARRATIVE, IN Harmanus Van Brunck was an old Knickerbocker, Who long sailed a ship in the Rotterdam trade;Then retired from the sea, with some shot in the locker, To build him a fig-tree, and sit in its on Murray Hill he erected a a sort of indefinite sky-ward expansion;A brown-stone front of the Folderol order, With curlicues spread over every casement;The ceilings dove-colored, with blue and gold border; Gas introduced from the attic to basement;Encaustic tiles for the pavement of halls,Rosewood furniture, paintings on walls—The first, in the style of Louis Quatorze;The second bought cheap, through the terrible wars,The dealer averred, with a wink so sly, In Europe, but really all in my eye ;Curtains of silk to each window and bed,And the cosdiest carpets to deaden the before was a fig-tree grown,Of such beautiful mortar, and bricks and-stone;And sitting beneath its comforting shade,Like Selkirk, the monarch

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