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ROBERT SOUTHEY.
“Why, ’twas a very wicked thing! ”
Said little Wilhelmine.
“Nay — nay — my little girl”, quoth he,“It was a famous victory.
“And every body prais’d the Duke“Who this great fight did win.”
“But what good came of it at last?”
Quoth little Peterkin.
“Why, that I cannot tell”, said he,
“But ’twas a famous victory.”