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Urceus Exit

Henry Austin Dobson

I intended an Ode,
  And it turn’d to a Sonnet
It began à la mode,
I intended an Ode;
But Rose cross’d the road
  In her latest new bonnet;
I intended an Ode;
  And it turn’d to a Sonnet.

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From The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900 | Clarendon, 1919

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