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My wife contrived a fleecy thing / Her husband to infold, / For 'tis the pride of woman still / To cover from the cold: / My daughter made it a new text / For a sermon very old.
The child came trotting to her side, / Ready with bootless aid: / "Lily make veckit for papa," / The tiny woman said: / Her mother gave the means and ways, / And a knot upon her thread.