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As I left the Halls at Lumley, rose the vision of a comely / Maid last season worshipped dumbly, watched with fervor from afar; / And I wondered idly, blindly, if the maid would greet me kindly.
That was all -- the rest was settled by the clinking tonga-bar. / Yea, my life and hers were coupled by the tonga coupling-bar.