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Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889

Epigrams: With a Pair of Gloves Lost in a Wager

By James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

WE wagered, she for sunshine, I for rain,

And I should hint sharp practice if I dared;

For was not she beforehand sure to gain

Who made the sunshine we together shared?