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I wooed her with a steeplechase, I won her with a fall, / I made her heartstrings quiver on the flat / When the pony missed his take-off, and we crashed into the wall; / Well, she simply _had_ to have me after that!
It awoke a thrill of interest when they pulled me out for dead / From beneath the shattered ruins of a horse; / And, although she _looked_ indifferent when I landed -- on my head -- / In the water, it appealed to her, of course!