DICK, A MAGGOT

As when, from rooting in a bin,

All powder'd o'er from tail to chin,

A lively maggot sallies out,

You know him by his hazel snout:

So when the grandson of his grandsire

Forth issues wriggling, Dick Drawcansir,

With powder'd rump and back and side,

You cannot blanch his tawny hide;

For 'tis beyond the power of meal

The gipsy visage to conceal;

For as he shakes his wainscot chops,

Down every mealy atom drops,

And leaves the tartar phiz in show,

Like a fresh t--d just dropp'd on snow.

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