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A COLLEGE EPISODE IN TWO PARTS.

That held our fixed gaze

Upon these unromantic things

Set forth in prim arrays;

But there we stood, when suddenly

A look of rapturous bliss

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Suffused my chum's sad countenance,

As when the sun's beams kiss

The rain-drops from the violets

Or from the eglantine, -

The strangest look of happiness

Mine eyes had ever seen.

There at the counter stood, oh, what!

Must I the truth reveal?

An Ethiopian, black as jet,

And uglier than the De'il.

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