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Charade by Mr. Owen When the Nurse with frolic tries To check the puling Infant's cries, When she strives its fears to trick up And care by fright the troublous hiccup My first she brawls with sudden roar And fears of hiccups vex no more. -- My next's a term that can express Who will my knotty riddle guess Who virtue & religion prize And who the sweets of Life dispise, Its number may be great or small And more than one, is less than all -- My whole is either brown or fair The Seat of pleasure & of care: Of all that grace, & that defile Of generous warmth, & secret guile,
