“Oh, I shan’t! you deceiver!” she said.
And the mulga and salmon-gums all,
In this star-gazing argument caught,
Sang, “You will!” “Oh, I shan’t!”
In a soul-wrecking chant—
But they thought in their hearts that she ought.
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]A BENDER AND SOME OF THE MOODS
THAT LEAD UP TO IT.
When days are long and nights are dull,
And life seems deathly still,