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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp.  The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse.  1922.
 
Under the Wattle
By Douglas Brook Wheelton Sladen (1856–1947)
 
‘WHY should not Wattle do
  For Mistletoe?’
Ask’d one—they were but two—
  Where wattles grow.
 
He was her lover, too,        5
  Who urged her so—
‘Why should not Wattle do
  For Mistletoe?’
 
A rose-cheek rosier grew;
  Rose-lips breathed low—        10
‘Since it is here—and You—
  I hardly know
Why Wattle should not do.’
 
 
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