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The Weeds

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Brown passed away, and Mrs Brown,     In weeds all smothered, went through town     By Brown's neat grave to take her stand,     And hold a metaphoric hand.     She diligently drove away     The sorrel springing every day.     When Mrs. Robert Wittle died     Poor Bob would sit her grave beside     On Sunday afternoons, and shed     His briny tribute to the dead;     And dimpled Mrs. brown and he     Had quite a bond of sympathy.     But presently, I understand,     'Twas Bob who held the widow's hand.     She decker herself in orange spray,     And all her weeds she cast away.     Now where the sorrel sheds its seeds     Brown's grave is thick with widow's weeds.

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