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WHEN I was broke in London in the fall of '89, / I chanced to spy in Oxford Street this tantalizing sign, -- / "A Splendid Horace cheap for Cash! " Of course I had to look / Upon the vaunted bargain, and it was a noble book! / A finer one I've never seen, nor can I hope to see, -- / The first edition, richly bound, and clean as clean can be; / And, just to think, for three-pounds-ten I might have had that Pine, / When I was broke in London in the fall of '89!
Down at Noseda's, in the Strand, I found, one fateful day, / A portrait that I pined for as only maniac may, -- / A print of Madame Vestris (she flourished years ago, / Was Bartolozzi's daughter and a thoroughbred, you know).