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The Solitary, and other poems

With The Cavalier, a play. By Charles Whitehead
  
  

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He goes, and the poor witless girl
Draws up her lip in a proud curl,
And says, “Well done!” and with mock ire,
Commands the scrivener to admire,
Then pours such tales into his ear,
As almost craze the listener.