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New Collected Rhymes

by Andrew Lang

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Matrimony

(Matrimony—Advertiser would like to hear from well-educated Protestant lady, under thirty, fair, with view to above, who would have no objection to work Remington type-writer, at home. Enclose photo. T. 99. This Office. Cork newspaper.)

T. 99 would gladly hear
   From one whose years are few,
A maid whose doctrines are severe,
   Of Presbyterian blue,
Also—with view to the above—
   Her photo he would see,
And trusts that she may live and love
   His Protestant to be!
But ere the sacred rites are done
   (And by no Priest of Rome)
He’d ask, if she a Remington
   Type-writer works—at home?

If she have no objections to
   This task, and if her hair—
In keeping with her eyes of blue—
   Be delicately fair,
Ah, then, let her a photo send
   Of all her charms divine,
To him who rests her faithful friend,
   Her own T. 99.

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