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I'm going to read
for about an hour.

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And I'll read, more or less,
in chronological order,

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at least in the order
that the books came out.

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Sometimes poems came out later
that were written earlier.

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The first poem is from my
second book called The Tennis

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Court Oath.

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It's called "Thoughts
of a Young Girl".

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It is such a
beautiful day, I had

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to write you a letter
from the tower.

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And to show I'm not
mad, I only slipped

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on the cake of soap
of the air, and drown

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in the bathtub of the world.

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You were too good to cry much
over me, and now I let you go.

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Signed, The Dwarf.

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I passed by, late
in the afternoon,

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and the smile still
played about her lips,

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as it has for centuries.

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She always knows
how to be utterly

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delightful Oh, my daughter,
my sweetheart, daughter

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of my late employer, princess,
may you not be long on the way.

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