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A MISUNDERSTANDING.

IT was a very aged man

I met long time ago;

The color of his face was tan,

His beard was white as snow.

A trifle faltering was his walk,

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A trifle stammering was his talk;

But ever in the saddest tones

He crooned this simple rhyme :

"The same are women! maids or crones,

In every age and clime;

Men's hearts they use as stepping-stones

To cross the stream of Time."

"Give o'er!" I cried, "thou aged man!

Repeat those lines no more!

What if they do correctly scan?

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