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A TALE FOR THE TIMES.

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I HATE thee, chattering telegraph!

Of madness I am on the border.

That click, click, click, when working well,

That clank, clank, clank, when out of order!

Reason, avaunt! I only state the

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Simple fact, which is - I hate thee!

I was not always thus, - to quote

Good Mr. Kellogg's gladiator;

Once I adored with child-like love

Of novelty. It was no later

Than Monday week, at half past nine,

I was a power "on the Line."

O Fate! O Fate! O cruel Fate!

I feel the fatal fire within burn;

I feel the most insane desire

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