Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . [214] Digitized by Microsoft® An Excuse These lines treat not of bread and butter,No fool is sent home on a shutter, No Pippa are never made to feel They are but asses;And painful mental vivisectionMay be avoided by theyre defective, that I own,For which defects I make atoneBy having ready this retort—Ive made them very, very [215] Digitized by Microsoft® Those Days With all the Dancers duly set,We danced some pleading minuetWhich figured well the goings onOf those days and our merry set,That once so merry s

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Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . [214] Digitized by Microsoft® An Excuse These lines treat not of bread and butter,No fool is sent home on a shutter, No Pippa are never made to feel They are but asses;And painful mental vivisectionMay be avoided by theyre defective, that I own,For which defects I make atoneBy having ready this retort—Ive made them very, very [215] Digitized by Microsoft® Those Days With all the Dancers duly set,We danced some pleading minuetWhich figured well the goings onOf those days and our merry set,That once so merry now with pretty ghosts aloneI dance that pleading minuet. Could I But Know! Careless youth scattered, as if it little matteredHow, or where, or when the golden grain was sown; Had it but known! Closing the weary eyes gives the brain no sadly goes on reaping what it has sown. Had it but known! Old Age again sowing but this well knowing,It never will gather the harvest it now only murmur to itself, meekly and low, •Could I but know! [216] Digitized by Microsoft®

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