| Show f american aristocracy of all the gotab e things on earth the queerest one la is pride of if bt th ith among our fierce nerce democracy A bridge across a hundred years without a prop to save sane it from sneers not even a counie of rotten peers A thing for laughter bleers and jeers Is american aristocracy english and irish french and spanish germans italians du ch and danish crossing their veins until they vanish in one conglomeration so subtle a tangle of alood I 1 deed no Iler heraldry aldry harvey will ever succeed in finding the circulation depend upon it my snobbish friend your youl family thread you can t ascend without t good reason to apprehend you ma may mygind fand it waxed at the farther end by some plebeian vocation or worse than that your boasted line may eid end in a loop of stronger twine that plagued some worthy relation john G saxe |