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AN UNEXPECTED PLEASURE, by                    
First Line: My heart is like one asked to dine
Last Line: Because the mother of my wife / has come - and means to stay with me
Subject(s): "mothers-in-law;rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894);


My heart is like one asked to dine
Whose evening dress is up the spout;
My heart is like a man would be
Whose raging tooth is half pulled out.
My heart is like a howling swell
Who boggles on his upper C;
My heart is madder than all these —
My wife's mamma has come to tea.

Raise me a bump upon my crown,
Bang it till green in purple dies;
Feed me on bombs and fulminates,
And turncocks of a medium size.
Work me a suit in crimson apes
And sky-blue beetles on the spree;
Because the mother of my wife
Has come — and means to stay with me.





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