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...getting late," remarked the chairman, blushing like a school-boy at the complimentary remarks of the editor, "we cannot hope to hear from all our honored guests; but before we break up I desire to call upon Mr. Walt Wh-tm-n for the poem which he has kindly prepared for the occasion. It will be published in the next Harper's, with thirty-five pre-Raffaelite illustrations, many of them portraits of - of ourselves...
...give Mr. Wh-tm-n's poem entire...
...cold perspiration stood on the faces of the listeners at this. "Who will read it, Robert, who will read it?" asked Mr. J-st-n W-ns-r pathetically. Then T-nnys-n said that some poets were poets, and so was Walt Wh-tm-n and Walk-in Miller. Mr. Rottessi intimated that he was another, and that - Here Mr. Rustin interfered, saying that Art was Art, and the Poets were Fools. At this insult, a hundred tottering forms indignantly arose, and the constitution was forgotten in a windy war of words, in the midst of which Algernon Charles...
This was recognized at once as a gross plagiarism upon a dainty poem of the Advocate. Mr. H. was visited with scorn, and replied by throwing about the spoons. At this critical state of affairs Mr. Walt Wh-tm-n emerged from under the table, and delivered the following