Betwixt Two Seas Poems and Ballads (Written at Constantinople and Therapia). By Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb] |
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“FOR ONE MAN'S PLEASURE”
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“FOR ONE MAN'S PLEASURE”
Two magpies sought my garden-glade,(It brings good luck to look at two!)
Tho' not as billing ring-doves woo
Do pies discourse of love! They made
A grievous chatter in the shade:
But, by-and-by, with much ado,
They built a nest, and then I knew
I should be lucky whilst they stay'd!
I ween two blither fowl than these,
You had not seen beneath the sun!
Wherefore, the gard'ner took a gun
And shot one near the early peas,—
The sad mate lingers, ill at ease;
(It bodes bad luck to look at one!)
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