ON A LADY'S WEDDING ON THE 21ST OF DECEMBER

Return'd from the Op'ra, as lately I sat, IndifFrently chatting of this thing and that, My Lady I ask'd, how it enter'd her head, To fix on St. Thomas', of all days, to wed?

To which she replied, with reason the strongest, 'Tho' shortest the day is — the night, sir, is longest!"

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