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All day the envelope she scann'd. But though her royal name it bore, 'Twas in an Unfamiliar Hand. The Postmark puzzled her still more. The Princess could not understand Who'd write to her from -- --
She turned it Left, she turned it Right, She pinched it, shook it to and fro, She held it up against the Light, And topsy-turvy wise -- but no, It still continued to preserve Its air of Self-contained Reserve.