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Eugene Field - One Day I Got A MissiveEugene Field - One Day I Got A Missive
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One day I got a missive           Writ in a dainty hand,       Which made my manly bosom           With vanity expand.       ’Twas from a “young admirer”           Who asked me would I mind       Sending her “favorite poem”           “In autograph, and signed.”       She craved the boon so sweetly           That I had been a churl       Had I repulsed the homage           Of this gentle, timid girl;       With bright illuminations           I decked the manuscript,       And in my choicest paints and inks           My brush and pen I dipt.       Indeed it had been tedious           But that a flattering smile       Played on my rugged features           And eased my toil the while.       I was assured my poem           Would fill her with delight       I fancied she was pretty           I knew that she was bright!       And for a spell thereafter           That unknown damsel’s face       With its worshipful expression           Pursued me every place;       Meseemed to hear her whisper:           “O, thank you, gifted sir,       For the overwhelming honor           You so graciously confer!”       But a catalogue from Benjamin’s           Disproves what things meseemed       Dispels with savage certainty           The flattering dreams I dreamed;       For that poor “favorite poem,”           Done and signed in autograph,       Is listed in “Cheap Items”           At a dollar-and-a-half.
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