OUT OF PLUMB.
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LAID out pounds, and pounds, In entertainment rounds, And worked a score of credit pretty thick, For I heard she had a plumb, So invited her to come, To the altar at shortest notice quick, When I asked her for my plumb, She was all but deaf and dumb, I found that I was married thro' a trick, To have lifted off the shelf, A maiden without pelf, Was unbusiness-like, I felt it was a stick, Of the candle, all I had was but the wick, A moody retrospection, makes me sick!