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WITH COMPLIMENTS by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG

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First Line: WE WENT ALONG A FOREST ROAD
Last Line: SHE COVERED UP HER HEAD.

We went along a forest road,
Went naked in the night;
Our bodies in the moonlight showed
Curious and bright.

I don't think you'd enjoy it;
Although you have the wit,
I doubt if you'd employ it
Or like the lark a bit.

Yet there was nothing novel
That night in what we did -
We saw the old moon travel;
Like him, we went unhid.

Just after dawn we met a dame
Who some day shall be dead,
And when we bright triumphant came
She covered up her head.



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