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Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1689/Canzonet to Correspondents

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CANZONET TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Sing O the piles of verse and prose
The postman daily brings;
Punch can't preserve, and therefore throws
Away rejected things.

Torn up, he sends them all to burn;
None such can he restore.
Dear friends, they quit you to return
As youth returns — no more!

Punch.