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CONTENT AT HOME,

I could not find tlie little maid Content. So out I rushed and Bought her far and wid*: But not where Pleasure each new fancy tried, Heading the maze of reeling merriment, Nor where, with restless eyes and brow halfbent, Love in a. brake of swoetbriar smiled and sighed, Nor yet whore Fame towered crowned and glorified Found I her face, nor wberesoe'er I went. So homeward back I crawled like a wounded bird, When, 10-! Content sate spinning at mv door. And when I asked her where she was "before "Here all the time," she said; "I never stirred; Too eager in your search, you passed me o'er An «. though I oaued, you neither aaw nor heard. —Alfred-Austin,

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Evening Star, Issue 13145, 29 December 1908, Page 1

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CONTENT AT HOME, Evening Star, Issue 13145, 29 December 1908, Page 1

CONTENT AT HOME, Evening Star, Issue 13145, 29 December 1908, Page 1