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From The Wit and Humor of America, edited by Marshall P. Wilder, Volume III, New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls and Company, 1911; p. 572-572.


572

IN ELIZABETH’S DAY

BY WALLACE RICE

Who would not give the treasure

Of very many lives

If some kind fate would pleasure

To let him be where Ben is

A-playing Kit at Tennis,

Or playing Will at fives?

The racquet ne’er so deftly

Is turned, whoever strives,

The ball flies ne’er so swiftly

As thought and tongue where Ben is

A-playing Kit at tennis,

Or playing Will at fives.











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