"AH, me, but it might have been!                   #63
            Was there ever so dismal a fate?" --
            Quoth the little blue mandarin.

            "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                   CLICK FOR EXAMPLE #64

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