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THE FLATTER'S LAMENT by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "SEARCH, SEARCH, SEARCH / FOR A FLAT THAT'S FIT FOR ME"
Last Line: WILL NEVER COME BACK TO ME
Subject(s): LAMENT;

SEARCH, search, search
For a flat that's fit for me —
That's not too high nor yet too low —
I would that one I'd see!

From early Monday morn
Till late on Saturday night
I walked and talked and booked and looked —
And nothing has come right!

They won't take children here;
Some bedrooms have no air;
This one's too large and that too small —
There are no set tubs there.

So, it's search, search, search
In mute expectancy,
But the house I had with the big front yard
Will never come back to me.



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