SEVENTEENTH STAGE.

course of time the Brownies found
Themselves on the Mikado’s ground,
Where, though the natives seemed to be
Enlightened in a small degree

  

Above their neighbors, soon ’t was known
They had strange notions of their own,
And Brownies saw, to their regret,

The people were in darkness yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While through the country, strange and vast,
The active band of Brownies passed,
From town to town, o’er many a mile

They traveled in the native style,
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