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The poems in this volume were written in the last year of the twentieth century. A long overture with a surprising close, various “occupations,” songs, tricks, puzzles, gags of all sorts, comprise the work. An amusement for the cultivated reader, intended to allay the worrisome cares of a tired epoch, if poetry may be said to have a purpose. A savage, witty set of satires, a spoof and a song.