LINES WROTE ON READIN’ HOW CLEOPATRA MADE MEN ACT VERY FOOLISH
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To-day I readst in an old history book How Cleopatra used to make men do Just any fool thing that she wanted to By givin’ them a “lovey-dovey” look. Time wast, long, long ago, when I’dst have shook My head and saidst the story wast not true, But that, alas! that wast before I knew Miss Susan S. who hast my fancy took. To-day I hadst an apple I’dst have not Let any boy in school taste, but when she Asked couldst she have a bite and took a lot, I didst not mind at all, for, oh, to me, Where she hadst bit hadst somehow made the spot Taste awful sweet! Thus dost love rule us. See?
