| Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922. | | | | Feminine Arithmetic | | By Charles Graham Halpine |
| | LAURA ON me he shall ne’er put a ring, | |
| So, mamma, ’t is vain to take trouble— | |
| For I was but eighteen in spring, | |
| While his age exactly is double. | |
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MAMMA He ’s but in his thirty-sixth year, | 5 |
| Tall, handsome, good-natured and witty, | |
| And should you refuse him, my dear, | |
| May you die an old maid without pity! | |
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LAURA His figure, I grant you, will pass, | |
| And at present he ’s young enough plenty; | 10 |
| But when I am sixty, alas! | |
| Will not he be a hundred and twenty? | | | | |
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