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A GOLDEN HAIR.

Only a golden hair
Found on my coat to-day,
Why should my lady stare,
Why wear an injured air,
Why should she say,
“Love, we must sever,
Farewell, forever?”
Curse on that golden hair
Found on my coat to-day!
However came it there,
By means of foul or fair,
I cannot say;
But this, I know, alack!
My lady's hair is black!
January 3d, 1883.