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The Lovers.

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The rose did caper on her cheek,     Her bodice rose and fell,     Her pretty speech, like drunken men,     Did stagger pitiful.     Her fingers fumbled at her work, --     Her needle would not go;     What ailed so smart a little maid     It puzzled me to know,     Till opposite I spied a cheek     That bore another rose;     Just opposite, another speech     That like the drunkard goes;     A vest that, like the bodice, danced     To the immortal tune, --     Till those two troubled little clocks     Ticked softly into one.

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