ON A NANKIN PLATE.
"Ah.me,-.but it might have been!' * Was thereever so;dismal.a fate?"— (iuoth tho'lit'tlo blue'iiiandarin; "Such a maid as was never seen I SKo passed though I cried to her 'Wait, " 'Ah;m6, : ,but it might-havo beeh.l . ' '. -j ' Vl'cried,;.'Oh my'Flowerj- iny-Queen, t • ■ 80/minelj ."1 iras■; precipitate,. Quoth Hhe littla bluo mandarin,— '?But then .••/she was just, sixteen, — ~' Long-eyed, 'a lily straight,— •• " Ah,me, .but.-it might-have been! '-As . it . her . palankeen; ~ She laughed—'you'ro a week too, late!' , (Quoth'tho littlo blue mandarin.) <■■■ "That is why, in a -mist ,of spleen, I mourn- on this ;Narikin '.'Plato. ■ <. ■ . Ah, mo, -• butmight/have been!" : Quoth'tho 'littjo" blue mandarin. r —Austin : Dobson.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 106, 28 January 1908, Page 3
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104ON A NANKIN PLATE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 106, 28 January 1908, Page 3
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