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One may use the Old Man of the Sea, / For a partner or patron, / But helpless and hapless is he / Who is ridden, inextricably, / By a fond old mer-matron.
The Warden house was more impressive in appearance than its neighbors. It had "grounds," instead of a yard or garden; it had wide pillared porches and "galleries," showing southern antecedents; moreover, it had a cupola, giving date to the building, and proof of the continuing ambitions of the builders.