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A MODERN VALENTINE.
Oh, Rowland Hill, immortal man,
How can we pay you for your plan!
To you our thanks, our pence are due;
It was the Emperor of Japan
As much as they that gave the Universal Penny Postage.
How can we pay you for your plan!
To you our thanks, our pence are due;
It was the Emperor of Japan
As much as they that gave the Universal Penny Postage.
Send up a column to the sky,
Five thousand office-inkstands high;
Take for a basement fair to view,
As many reams of "wove demy;"
Write—"To the author of the Universal Penny Postage."
Five thousand office-inkstands high;
Take for a basement fair to view,
As many reams of "wove demy;"
Write—"To the author of the Universal Penny Postage."
A Modern Valentine.
Dear girl, I send my love to thee,
As pure and true as love can be;
Of course you'll know from whom this came,
But if you don't, it's all the same.
As pure and true as love can be;
Of course you'll know from whom this came,
But if you don't, it's all the same.
