"Such a maid as was never seen!
She passed, though I cried to her 'Wait' --
Ah me, but it might have been!
"I cried, 'O my Flower, my Queen,
Be mine!' 'Twas precipitate" --
Quoth the little blue mandarin --
"But then . . . she was just sixteen,
Long-eyed -- as a lily straight --
Ah me, but it might have been!
"As it was,from her palankeen,
She laughed -- 'You're a week too late!' "
(Quoth the little blue mandarin.)
"That is why, in a mist of spleen,
I mourn on this Nankin Plate.
Ah me, but it might of been!" --
Quoth the little blue mandarin.
--Austin Dobson
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