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LY a housemaid!" She looked from the kitchen,--Neat was the kitchen and tidy was she;
There at her window a sempstress sat stitching;"Were I a sempstress, how happy I'd be!""Only a Queen!" She looked over the waters,--Fair was her kingdom and mighty was she;
There sat an Empress, with Queens for her daughters;"Were I an Empress, how happy I'd be!"Still the old frailty they all of them trip in!
Eve in her daughters is ever the same;
Give her all Eden, she sighs for a pippin;
Give her an Empire, she pines for a name!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
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