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This volume packed with bric-à-brac

I offer you with my affection, —

The story halts, the rhymes are slack —

Poor stuff to add to your collection.

Gems you possess from ages back:

It is the modern junk you lack.

We three once moused through marble halls,

Immersed in Art and deep dejection,

Mid golden thrones and choir-stalls

And gems beyond my recollection —

Yet soft! – my memory recalls

Red labels pasted on the walls!

And so, perhaps, my bric-à-brac

May pass the test of your inspection;

Perhaps you will not send it back,

But place it – if you've no objection —

Under some nick-nack laden rack

Where platters dangle on a tack.

So if you'll take this book from me

And hide it in your cupboards laden

Beside some Dresden filigree

And frivolously fetching maiden —

Who knows? – that Dresden maid may see

My book – and read it through pardie!