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[Come, and you'll find the muffins hot]

Come, and you'll find the muffins hot,
And fragrant tea in the tea-pot,
And she, you know, with the taper fingers,
Shall pour it out for you—Wherefore lingers
My friend so long? where can he be?
Didn't he promise he'd come to tea?
Ah! there's his knock—the very cat knows 'tis—
Now we'll be snug and toast our noses,
Now we ------