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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 you say so, and never say,

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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 forever.

A FACE.

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