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blood ; another on the senses , telling children that they hear with their ears , and taste with their mouths , in the following lofty strains : —
The organ , curiously designed , By which it is we hear , Which catches modulated wind ,
Is simply called the ear . The organ of the sense of smell Resides within the nose ; To which unfelt , invisible , The spreading odour flows . The other senses are treated of in an equally original manner . We have not space to quote the rhymes in which the mechanical powers , and the land and water are turned into
ridicule . The following are portions of a Chronological Ode , which is written by no ordinary poet .
Sixty seconds make a minute , Time enough to tie my shoe ; Sixty minutes make an hour , Shall it pass and nought to do ?
Twenty-four hours will make a day , Too much time to spend in sleep ; Too much time to spend in play , For seven days will end the week . Fifty-two such weeks will put Near an end to every year ; Days three hundred and 6 ixty-n * ve Are the whole that it can share .
Except in leap-year , when one day Added is to gain lost time ; May it not be spent iu play , Neither any evil crime ! Our time is short we often say ; Let us then improve it well , That eternally we may Live where happy angels dwell .
The reasoning of this poem is conducted on principles aft original as those which characterise its poetry , rhythm , and grammar ; the stanza on the leap-year is a happy hit . The following is the first of a series of " Amusing and Instructive Rhymes : " it is quite Pindaric . Horizontal , perpendicular , Horizontal , perpendicular ,
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