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_He suddenly_, the page read as it turned, / _Died_. / The indignant eye discerned / No sense. "Good page, turn back," it cried / (Happily evermore was cheated). / _After these things he suddenly died_, / The truthful page repeated.
"Turn back yon earlier pages, nine or ten, / To _Him she loved_ and _He alone of men_. / Now change the sentence, page! " But still it read / _He suddenly died: they scarce had time to kiss_. / "Read on, ungentle reader," the book said, / "Resign your hopes to this."
The eye could not resign, restless in grief, / But darting forward to a later leaf / Found _Him she loved_ and _He alone of men_. / Oh, who this He was, being a second He / Confused the plan; the book spoke sternly then, / "Read page by page and see! "