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The Golf-Ball And The Loan. After Longfellow

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I drove a golf-ball into the air,     It fell to earth, I knew not where;     For, so swiftly it flew, the sight     Could not follow it in its flight.     I lent five shillings to some men,     They spent it all, I know not when,     For who is quick enough to know     The time in which a crown may go?     Long, long afterward, in a whin     I found the golf-ball, black as sin;     But the five shillings are missing still!     They haven't turned up, and I doubt if they will.

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