PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS. 89

*T was surely mine! as ’twere a gem,
I reached to pluck it from the stem.

Yet now a serious ill forbode ;

My foothold trembled ’neath its load—
The tottering branchlet broke and fell—
My saddened mien the rest can tell.

Oh list ye maidens, one and all;
Take warning from my luckless fall ;
Beware, and break not e’en one rule,
That helps to form the code of school.

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