✦ A Poem Served Instead of an Ad ✦
"You have heard," said a youth to his sweetheart, who stood
While he sat on a corn-sheaf, at daylight's decline--
"You have heard of the Danish boy's whistle of wood;
I wish that the Danish boy's whistle were mine!"

The Book of Humorous Verse, ed. Carolyn Wells (Public Domain)

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