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First Line: Would it had been the man of our wish!
Last Line: Good god - I must marry him I suppose!'
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


'WOULD it had been the man of our wish!'
Sighs her mother. To whom with vehemence she
In the wedding-dress - the wife to be -
'Then why were you so mollyish
As not to insist on him for me!'
The mother, amazed: 'Why, dearest one,
Because you pleaded for this or none!'

'But Father and you should have stood out strong!
Since then, to my cost, I have lived to find
That you were right and that I was wrong;
This man is a dolt to the one declined....
Ah! - here he comes with his button-hole rose.
Good God - I must marry him I suppose!'





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