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Horace Smith. 1779-1849

Thinking is but an idle waste of thought,

And nought is everything and everything is nought.

Rejected Addresses. Cui Bono?

In the name of the Prophet—figs.

Johnson's Ghost.

And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!)

In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago,

When the Memnonium was in all its glory.

Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition.