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IN his early days he was quite surprised / When she told him she was compromised / By meetings and lingerings at his whim, / And thinking not of herself but him; / While she lifted orbs aggrieved and round / That scandal should so soon abound, / (As she had raised them to nine or ten / Of antecedent nice young men) / And in remorse he thought with a sigh, / How good she is, and how bad am I! - / It was years before he understood / That she was the wicked one-he the good.