“ Original There once was a Copperhead vile, who attempted to damage a file,
So he tried it in truth, but soon broke every tooth
On that rusty and crusty Old File.
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"Nor doth this Wood lack Worlds."—Midsummer Night's Dream, II. 2.
There was an old Snake in New York said for peace all the people should work;
"But if war must come, let us fight here at home!!" ”

“ As a Copperhead Pierce goes squirming round".
What a pity that Joshua D.
A good Insolvency lawyer should be,
Yet cannot, in politics, as we see,
Keep his own good name from bankruptcie!
John C. passes, now and then,
For one of Boston's League-al men.
Mistake me not—he doth intrigue
With the Liquor—not the Union—League!
Gamblers, Wood-ites, thieves, and asses,
Scrapings of the dangerous classes,
Pettifoggers malign, but weak,
Who dare not fight and cannot speak;
Trash which the war-tide rolling high
Has cast ashore in scorn to dry ”

“ Give the parties the shells if you can, and nought else,
Unless the Court tips you a hi-ster."
There's a man at the Bar who, we know,
Is in politics terribly low;
For he keeps in the clubs the secessional cubs,
Who in propria persona can't go.
There's a very bad-minis-trator,
A très petite pomme de tater,
Who tears feelings to rags, presenting of flags;
This oily old adminis-traitor.
There's a wide-awake Copperhead cratur',
Who is Eli by name and by natur';
Displaying for one neither fashion nor ton,
This un-national nativist traitor. ”

“ The traitor our Common Cents mars, And on Liberty plainly he wars,
Taking Freedom away from the Union, I say,
When he cuts out her head from the stars.
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"And so the lion vanished."—Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1. ”