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A PROBLEM.
When I yield to every whim,
She straight begins to pout.
Teach me how to read my love,
How to find her out!

For flowers she gives me thistle-blooms,—
Her turtle-doves are crows,—
I am the groaning weather-vane,
And she the wind that blows.

My little love! My teasing love
Was woman made for man,—
A rose that blossomed from his side?
Believe it—those who can.