WRITTEN IN A RESTAURANT.
* * * * *
'T IS a good place to sit and moralize;
For here there's naught that can your temper vex;
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And a great drama's played before your eyes,
The acting natural, the plot complex.
When interrupted friendship is renewed,
And softened hearts in firmer love combine,
'T is here they come to quench, in kindly mood,
The flames of wrath with floods of sparkling wine.
Hither, his jaded fancy to amuse,
Some idler strolls; and while his port he sips,
The fair proportions of the bar-maid views,
With eyes, I trow, as thirsty as his lips!
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