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On A Crushed Hat

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Brown was my friend, and faithful--but so fat!          He came to see me in the twilight dim;          I rose politely and invited him     To take a seat--how heavily he sat!     He sat upon the sofa, where my hat,          My wanton Zephyr, rested on its rim;          Its build, unlike my friend's, was rather slim,     And when he rose, I saw it, crushed and flat.     O Hat, that wast the apple of my eye,          Thy brim is bent, six cracks are in thy crown,                 And I shall never wear thee any more;     Upon a shelf thy loved remains shall lie,          And with the years the dust will settle down                 On thee, the neatest hat I ever wore!

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