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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.

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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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