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A Sonnet In Dialogue.

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FRANK (on the Lawn).     Come to the Terrace, May,--the sun is low.     MAY (in the House).     Thanks, I prefer my Browning here instead.     FRANK.     There are two peaches by the strawberry bed.     MAY.     They will be riper if we let them grow.     FRANK.     Then the Park-aloe is in bloom, you know.     MAY.     Also, her Majesty Queen Anne is dead.     FRANK.     But surely, May, your pony must be fed.     MAY.     And was, and is. I fed him hours ago.     'Tis useless, Frank, you see I shall not stir.     FRANK.     Still, I had something you would like to hear.     MAY.     No doubt some new frivolity of men.     FRANK.     Nay,--'tis a thing the gentler sex deplores     Chiefly, I think....     MAY (coming to the window).     What is this secret, then?     FRANK (mysteriously).     There are no eyes more beautiful than yours!

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