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7.

And I-soon managed to find

Weak points in the flower-fence facing,

Was forced to put up a blind

And be safe in my corset-lacing.

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If you never turned your eyes' tail up,

As I shook upon E in alt.,

Or ran the chromatic scale up :

9.

For spring bade the sparrows pair,
And the boys and girls gave guesses,

And stalls in our street looked rare

With bulrush and watercresses.

10.

Why did not you pinch a flower
In a pellet of clay and fling it?
Why did not I put a power

Of thanks in a look, or sing it?

11.

I did look, sharp as a lynx,

(And yet the memory rankles) When models arrived, some minx

Tripped up-stairs, she and her ankles.

12.

But I think I gave you as good!

"That foreign fellow,-who can know

How she pays, in a playful mood,

For his tuning her that piano?"

13.

Could

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Suppose we join hands and fortunes,

And I fetch her from over the way,

Her, piano, and long tunes and short tunes ?"

14.

No, no: you would not be rash,

Nor I rasher and something over: You've to settle yet Gibson's hash,

And Grisi yet lives in clover.

15.

But you meet the Prince at the Board,
I'm queen myself at bals-paré,

I've married a rich old lord,

And you 're dubbed knight and an R. A.

16.

Each life's unfulfilled, you see;

It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,―been happy.

17.,

And nobody calls you a dunce,

And people suppose me clever : This could but have happened once,

And we missed it, lost it for ever.

A FACE.

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