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A LOVERS’ QUARREL.
And to break now and then the screen—
Black neck and eyeballs keen,
Up a wild horse leaps between!

7.
Try, will our table turn?
Lay your hands there light, and yearn
Till the yearning slips
Thro' the finger tips
In a fire which a few discern,
And a very few feel burn,
And the rest, they may live and learn!

8.
Then we would up and pace,
For a change, about the place,
Each with arm o'er neck.
'Tis our quarter-deck,