No piece de resistance;
Duplex elliptics caught his wing,
He stumbled off the wall,
And thus, of his content the Spring,
Was changed unto a Fall.
And now, her skirts and fortune good
She thanked with much affection;
For that she was not dragon's food
Was food for much reflection.
She then unto the altar went,
And hurried thence to dinner;
And, since her mind was altered, bent,
And wed one knightly sinner.
He died that night, but ne'ertheless
The maiden lived in clover,
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