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First Line: POETS MAY SING THEIR PLAINTIVE WAILS
Last Line: AS THE STORY READ AT A SINGLE LOOK / AT THE STUBS IN A COLLEGE-MAN'S OLD BANK-BOOK
Subject(s): BANKS AND BANKING;LIFE;
POETS may sing their plaintive wails,
Historians tell their fearful tales
Of wasted lives and broken hearts,
And the anguish of love's poisoned darts;

But they tell of nothing half so bad,
Nothing so harrowing or sad,
As the story read at a single look
At the stubs in a college-man's old bank-book.



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