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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.