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WEDDING - CARDS.

THIS missive, daintily ornate,

Directed as in copperplate,

Which three envelopes guard;

Surmounted with a little bow,

A snowy true-love knot, I know

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Contains a wedding-card.

I know them well from days of yore,

And, grumbling, vote these things a bore;

Not in themselves unpleasant,

But as entailing gloves and hat,

And painfully suggesting that

Inevitable present.

Only last fall, - how keen the shock! -

When Chloe wed, I sent a clock,

As fine as I was able;

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