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MY EXERCISE.

Is bubbling o'er with jollity.

He hands my folded paper back,

Remarking, "Though we all may know

Your theme's as old as R me itself,

We can't take this for Cicero."

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What! "Lines to Lucy's Nut-brown Hair."

That's lain perdu since last July;

I wrote it for that little flirt

I met last summer down at Rye.

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