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Mrs. Browning will apply:

For none of all your words will let me
go,
Like sweet verbena, which, being brush-
ed against,
Will hold us three hours after by the
swell,
In spite of long walks upon windy hills.

A little reflection would show the
folly of abusing a noble language and
degrading self. We spend laborious
years in study of the Latin and the
Greek, as an absolute necessity to a com-